Patent ID: 7912445
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing a first service enabler for a first service, the first service enabler having a first interface configured to use a first format to communicate with a first set of content or service providers; providing a second service enabler for a second service, the second service enabler having a second interface configured to use the first format to communicate with a second set of content or service providers, wherein the first format comprises a common interface for communicating with the first set of content or service providers and the second set of content or service providers; providing a plurality of drivers, each of the plurality of drivers configured to adapt communications received from the first and second service enablers to a network communications format associated with a network access provider in communications with the respective driver; receiving a first communication in the first format at the first service enabler; using a driver associated with a first network access provider to adapt the first communication to a first network communications format, associated with the first network access provider, and transmit the adapted communication to the first network access provider; receiving a second communication at the first service enabler, the second communication in the first format, the second communication associated with a second user address; determining a second network access provider in communication with a second access device associated with the second user address; using a second one of the plurality of drivers, associated with the second network access provider, to adapt the second communication to a second network communications format associated with the second network access provider; and transmitting the adapted second communication, using the second driver, to the second network access provider.