Patent ID: 8711844

Claim:
A telephone terminal for configuring a plurality of telephone terminals of a telephone system, the telephone terminal comprising: circuitry configured to conduct a telephone call over an Internet Protocol (IP) network; and a server configured to: display a network-accessible user interface on a client device by transferring aspects of the network-accessible user interface to a web browser of the client device via the IP network; receive, from the client device via the IP network and the network-accessible user interface displayed by the web browser, a request for configuration data used to configure one or more telephone terminals of the plurality of telephone terminals, wherein the request identifies the configuration data, identifies a target telephone terminal, and provides a session cookie; determine that the requested configuration data resides on another telephone terminal; relay the request to the another telephone terminal to obtain the requested configuration data from the another telephone terminal; access configuration data of multiple target telephone terminals through a single proxy terminal; update the network-accessible user interface displayed by the web browser to present the requested configuration data to the client device via the network-accessible user interface; receive, from the client device via the IP network and the network-accessible user interface displayed by the web browser, another request for configuration data used to configure one or more telephone terminals of the plurality of telephone terminals; determine that the another request for configuration data corresponds to further configuration data residing on a third telephone terminal; relay the another request to the third telephone terminal to obtain the requested further configuration data from the third telephone terminal; and update the network-accessible user interface displayed by the web browser to present the requested further configuration data from the third telephone terminal to the client device via the network-accessible user interface.