Patent ID: 7523212

Claim:
A networked computing environment for providing network services to computing devices, the networked computing environment comprising: a communication network operable to communicate with a plurality of computing devices; and configuration information associated with the communication network, the configuration information describing a configuration for computing devices connected to the communication network; wherein the communication network, upon the computing device dynamically establishing a network connection to the communication network, provides the configuration information to the computing device, such that the computing device may automatically configure itself according to the configuration information; wherein the computing device is further configured based on the occurrence of a triggering event, the triggering event comprises a predetermined geographical area, a particular date, a particular day of the week and a particular time of day, such that detection of the triggering event initiates configuration information specifically associated with the detected triggering event; wherein the configuration information further includes an indicator identifying whether computing device features not specifically identified in the configuration information should or should not be available while the computing device is connected to the communication network, such that the computing device makes available or unavailable computing device features not specifically identified in the configuration information according to the indicator; and wherein the computing device, upon detecting that the computing device is no longer connected to the communication network, the computing device configures itself according to default configuration information.