Patent ID: 6961754

Claim:
A method for providing an intelligent multimedia services environment in a network, comprising the steps of: responsive to a request by an end user, a first terminal device coupled to the network establishing a session with a media server and initiating a multimedia application that is shared by a second terminal device; simultaneously, the first and second terminal devices sharing and manipulating multimedia data from one or more multimedia databases; selecting the multimedia data according to user preferences utilizing a first application associated with the multimedia application; adapting the multimedia data according to terminal device capabilities and network capabilities utilizing a second application associated with the multimedia application; providing communication between the first terminal device and the second terminal device and the multimedia data and the multimedia application; determining preferences of the first and second terminal devices; and automatically adapting the multimedia data to satisfy the determined preferences and the terminal device and network capabilities of the first and second terminal devices prior to sending the multimedia data to the first and second terminal devices.