Patent ID: 8194651

Claim:
A method for providing access to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service user-specific user account information stored in a VoIP service, the method comprising: receiving, at the VoIP service from a VoIP device over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, an IP request for access to VoIP service user-specific user account information stored in the VoIP service and associated with the VoIP device, the IP request including a device identifier built into the VoIP device and uniquely identifying the VoIP device; authenticating the received IP request by comparing the received device identifier with device identifiers, associated with VoIP service user-specific user account information for VoIP devices of respective users of the VoIP service, stored in the VoIP service; and providing access to VoIP service user-specific user account information associated with the VoIP device in response to the received IP request if the received device identifier is stored in the VoIP service, the access to the user-specific user account information being provided to a user of the VoIP device.