Patent ID: 7804947

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting one or more errors arising from configuration data of a private branch exchange switch that fails to comply with one or more rules, wherein the one or more errors are detected based on the configuration data of the private branch exchange switch failing to comply with a geographic rule that identifies hardware for a given geographic locale of the private branch exchange switch; automatically correcting the configuration data of the private branch exchange switch when the one or more errors are recognized to belong to a type of errors that are automatically correctible; correcting the configuration data of the private branch exchange switch based on a user input received via an interface for error correction that is presented to the user, wherein the configuration data of the private branch exchange switch is corrected based on the user input when the one or more errors are not recognized to belong to the type of errors that are automatically correctible; and validating the configuration data of the private branch exchange switch after the configuration data of the private branch exchange switch is corrected.