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Generic provisioning of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

  • US 20060221940A1
  • Filed: 04/05/2005
  • Published: 10/05/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A customer premises equipment (CPE) apparatus, comprising:

  • a first communications unit adapted to send and receive messages over a wide area network (WAN), the first communications unit being adapted to send a request message to an initialization server at an initialization server address, receive a response message from the initialization server containing a configuration server address, send a request message to the configuration server at the configuration server address, and receive a response message from the configuration server containing a configuration data;

    a memory unit adapted to store and retrieve information including the initialization server address, the initialization server address being stored in the memory unit prior to sending the request message to the initialization server; and

    a processing unit adapted to control the sending and receiving of messages through the first communications unit, to retrieve the initialization server address from the memory unit, and initialize the CPE apparatus with the configuration data in order to establish service with a service provider.

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