Patent ID: 8527611

Claim:
A method for transferring an active communication session with a first device to a second device, wherein configuration information of said first device and said second device is stored in an environment mirror agent at a gateway in a backbone network, said method comprising: maintaining the configuration information in a local network adaptation agent for each device of the first and second devices; transmitting the configuration information for the first device and the second device to the environment mirror agent; determining that a transfer of said active communication session from said first device to said second device is desired; and transferring said active communication session to said second device and adapting said active communication session as a function of the configuration information for said second device stored in the environment mirror agent, wherein the environment mirror agent mirrors the local network adaptation agent, said environment mirror agent used by said gateway to tailor communication with said plurality of devices, and said configuration information for said first device and said configuration information for said second device comprise a device profile, an interface profile and an application profile.