METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY REGISTERING A USER IN A DESK-SHARE ENVIRONMENT AND IP TELEPHONE

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for automatically registering a user in a desk-share environment comprising a plurality of desks, each desk being equipped with an IP telephone (1) connected to a communication network (3), in particular, to a Local Area Network, wherein the IP telephone (1) holds a data base comprising data of all desk-share users of the desk-share environment, the data comprising at least a user ID and a MAC address of a terminal device (2) for each user assigned to a user profile, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at the IP telephone (1), an IP data packet from a first terminal device (2) via the communication network (3); verifying the MAC address in the IP data packet received from the first terminal device (2); and if the MAC address corresponds to a MAC address in the data of the data base, activating the user profile assigned to the MAC address in the IP telephone. Further, the invention relates to an IP telephone (1) which is adapted to carry out the method for automatically registering a user in a desk-share environment.