Method for generalization of telephone signaling requirements to support multiple international marketplaces in a single customer premises device

A computer readable media having stored thereon programming instructions for a telephony device instructing the telephony device to accept a plurality of downloadable values that can be downloaded to the telephony device over an Internet Protocol network and stored in an accessible memory, wherein each of the plurality of values are defined as a management information base object or a management information base table that includes one or more management information base objects, said plurality of values including:

• a first set of management information base objects, one set for each of the one or more telephone ports, said first set of management information base objects controlling a first set of operations of the telephony device, said first set of operations including hook flash operations, pulse dialing operations, jitter buffer size, debounce characteristics, transmitter gain and receiver gain;
• a second set of management information base objects, a number of which are independent of a number of the one or more telephone ports, said second set of management information base objects controlling a second set of operations of the telephony device, said second set of operations including caller identification functionality;
• a first management information base table controlling pulse signaling operations for the telephony device;
• a second management information base table controlling ringing cadence operations for the telephony device;
• and
• a third management information base table controlling tone operations for the telephony device.

A method for operating a telephony device to account for variations in international standards for certain telephony operations, including hook flash functionality, pulse dialing operations, tone dialing operations, jitter buffer size, debounce characteristics, transmitter and receiver gain, caller identification functionality, pulse signaling operations, and ringing operations, said method comprising:

• defining each of the plurality of values as a management information base object or a management information base table including a plurality of management information base objects;
• receiving a plurality of downloadable values downloaded to the telephony device over an Internet Protocol network;
• storing the plurality of downloadable values in a memory in the telephony device;
• and
• using the stored plurality of downloadable values to control operations of the telephony device, including hook flash functionality, pulse dialing operations, tone dialing operations, jitter buffer size, debounce characteristics, transmitter and receiver gain, caller identification functionality, pulse signaling operations, and ringing operations.