Portable Telephony Profiles
First Claim
1. A method of providing telephony services to an end user in an internet protocol based communication network, the method comprising enabling a first telephony device to adopt a telephony profile of a second telephony device in response to a telephony profile event (TPE), wherein the telephony profile defines a set of telephony services associated with the end user.
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Abstract
A method for providing telephony services in an IP network includes enabling a first telephony device to adopt a telephony profile of a second telephony device in response to a telephony profile event (TPE). The telephony profile defines a set of telephony services, features, and configurations associated with the end user. The TPE may be the insertion of a portable storage device (PSD) into a port of the first telephony device. The PSD may be implemented, for example, as a USB compliant memory stick. The PSD includes a storage medium embedding telephony profile information. In some embodiments, the TPE may be a request, generated by a network resource, for the telephony profile. The telephony profile request may be generated by the first telephony device itself, e.g., when an end user or administrator asserts a predetermined button, soft button, or other control element of the telephony device.
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31 Claims
- 1. A method of providing telephony services to an end user in an internet protocol based communication network, the method comprising enabling a first telephony device to adopt a telephony profile of a second telephony device in response to a telephony profile event (TPE), wherein the telephony profile defines a set of telephony services associated with the end user.
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21. A Internet protocol (IP) phone, comprising:
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a general purpose processor; a network interface coupling the IP phone to an IP network; and a voice engine configured to process voice content received from the IP network and to process voice signals for transmission over the IP network; and storage media accessible to the general purpose processor, the storage media embedding a profile adoption module comprising a set of executable instructions including instructions for adopting a telephony profile of a second IP phone in response to detecting a telephony profile event (TPE). - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A processor readable storage media including embedded instructions for enabling an IP telephony device to adopt a telephony profile associated with an end user, the instructions comprising instructions for automatically:
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accessing telephony profile information embedded in the storage media and indicative of the IP telephony profile; initiating a request to register the IP telephony device on an IP communication network; and configuring telephony features of the IP telephony device according to the telephony profile. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
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