Patent ID: 8766795

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, from a mobile device, a characteristic associated with the mobile device, the characteristic comprising a location of the mobile device; determining, in accordance with the characteristic, at least one device among a plurality of devices for inclusion in an interface, each of the at least one device capable of providing a respective availability indication representative of an availability of the at least one device; providing the interface to the mobile device, the interface comprising an indication of respective selectable representations corresponding to each of the at least one device that are selectable via highlighting on a display of the mobile device; receiving a notification selection, from the mobile device, the notification selection indicative of a selected device of the at least one device; providing an availability indication pertaining to the selected device, the availability indication based on the received notification selection; generating a device configuration based on the received notification selection; receiving a credential corresponding to a subscriber of the mobile device; associating the device configuration with the credential; and storing the associated device configuration and credential.