Patent attributes
Multimedia services are provided to a subscriber within a domain of a communication network, wherein the subscriber utilizes one or more predetermined access terminals to access the multimedia services according to a network presence configuration of the subscriber. Each access terminal has respective multimedia capabilities, and the domain includes an application server for accessing the multimedia services. A user profile is established for the subscriber relating respective presence identifiers to a respective user service definition, wherein each user service definition specifies a set of the predetermined access terminals and respective multimedia services to be available for a respective network presence configuration. A current presence identifier of the subscriber is registered. The application server accesses the user profile to determine a user service definition corresponding to the current presence identifier. The subscriber initiates one of the multimedia services by sending a request to the application server from one of the access terminals in the set of predetermined access terminals. The application server interfaces with the multimedia service to obtain multimedia content from the initiated multimedia service. The application server then determines rules of service delivery according to the set of predetermined access terminals. The application server re-formats received multimedia content according to the rules of service delivery for the set of predetermined access terminals. The application server transmits re-formatted multimedia content to the corresponding access terminals.
