Patent ID: 7979061

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving at a communication terminal a profile message; parsing the received profile message to identify a plurality of profile fields corresponding to terminal operating characteristics, wherein the profile message comprises at least two profile fields that correspond to any of the following: a ringing tone field, a ringing volume field, an incoming call alert field, a message alert tone field, a keypad tone field, a warning tone field, or a graphic field; displaying on the communication terminal a list of selectable options comprising at least a first option to save the received profile message, a second option to discard the received profile message, and a third option to review the plurality of profile fields in the received profile message, wherein upon receiving a user input selecting the second option the communication terminal is configured to allow a user to elect not to store one or more of the received plurality of profile fields in a memory of the communication terminal, wherein upon receiving a user input selecting the third option the communication terminal is configured to allow a user to play a ringing tone received with the profile message and to view a graphic received with the profile message, and wherein upon receiving a user input selecting the first option the communication terminal is configured to identify a first user profile out of one or more user profiles stored in the communication terminal, wherein each of the user profiles corresponds to a set of user preferences and settings that control the operation of the communication terminal, and further configured to store the plurality of profile fields as the first user profile in the communication terminal, and wherein upon selection of the first user profile, the communication terminal is configured to operate according to the received plurality of profile fields.