Patent ID: 7941528

Claim:
A method for providing application services to an end user domain, comprising: providing, at an end user domain, a multimedia applications gateway that is connected to an access gateway for the end user domain of the application services, the access gateway communicatively coupled to end user devices and sensor and control devices at the end user domain, the multimedia applications gateway including a computer processor; configuring the multimedia applications gateway to distinguish open systems standards-based network communications at the end user domain from non-open systems standards-based network communications; configuring the multimedia applications gateway to convert network communications identified as the open systems standards-based network communications into network communications having an open standards protocol recognized by each of the end user devices, the open systems standards-based communications corresponding to a selected application service that is downloaded to the access gateway and transmitted from the access gateway to at least one of the end user devices; configuring the multimedia applications gateway to directly forward network communications identified as the non-open system standards-based communications from corresponding sensor and control devices at the end user domain to a designated remote communications device; executing the selected application service via the multimedia applications gateway; and monitoring activities occurring in response to execution of the selected application service, and monitoring feedback from the remote communications device.