Patent ID: 7110516

Claim:
A system, comprising: a plurality of telephones including at least one dynamically configurable telephone having at least one of an input for toggling on and off dynamic configuration of the telephone by a user or an indicator for indicating whether dynamic configuration is on or off; a switch that directs telephone calls carried between telephones and at least one trunk, said switch including physical and virtual extensions, wherein each physical extension corresponds to a link to a respective telephone and each virtual extension corresponds to a respective user; and a dynamic configuration module that associates a physical extension of the at least one dynamically configurable telephone with a virtual extension input by a user at the at least one dynamically configurable telephone when the user initiates a dynamic configuration of the telephone and wherein the dynamic configuration module further sends a signal to the telephone indicating the dynamic configuration of the telephone is complete, whereby features associated with the virtual extension input by the user are delivered to the dynamically configurable telephone.