Patent ID: 8365250

Claim:
A method for providing portable communication identity services, comprising: receiving a request to access a portable communication identity from a communications device; receiving user information input by a user of the communications device; authenticating the user information; accessing capabilities of the communications device by a server remotely connecting to the communications device to remotely scan hardware of the communications device in order to obtain hardware specifications of the communications device and in order to identify elements of the portable communication identity that are compatible with the capabilities of the communications device; displaying a gaming tab for the user to select in a menu for the portable communication identity, the gaming tab being populated in advance in the portable communication identity by the user; including a subscription to a gaming service in the portable communication identity; based on the subscription to the gaming service in the portable communication identity being incompatible with the communications device, preventing the subscription to the gaming service from being transmitted to the communications device; wherein the elements of the portable communication identity comprise a gaming application and a gaming configuration; and transmitting to the communications device the portable communication identity comprising the gaming application and the gaming configuration in accordance with the hardware specifications of the communications device obtained from the server remotely scanning the hardware of the communications device.