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US 2010/0061533 A1Published application
Portable Telephony Profiles
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorChristopher T. Rice
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AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorChristopher T. Rice
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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.
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.
A Internet protocol (IP) phone, comprising:
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:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.