Patent ID: 7337221

Claim:
A method for updating subscriber service information for customer premises equipment coupled through one or more nodes in a communications network to a network station, the method comprising: retrieving the subscriber service information from a remote database for updating at the network station and storing the subscriber service information in local memory of the network station for direct access thereto by the network station, the subscriber service information including one or more attributes; receiving at the network station directly from a user terminal coupled thereto an update to selected attributes of the one or more attributes of the subscriber service information; determining at the network station ones of the one or more nodes affected by the update from a list maintained by the network station, the list associating nodes with one or more attributes of the subscriber service information; and, distributing the update from the network station to only the ones of the one or more nodes affected by the update; wherein the one or more attributes include subscriber service profile information; wherein the subscriber service profile information includes a set of bearer and supplementary services; wherein the one or more attributes include address translation profile information for translating addresses for communications between the customer premises equipment and the one or more nodes; wherein the address translation profile information includes an identification of associated signalling links; and wherein the address translation profile information includes translation prefix information and termination address information.