Patent ID: 7522549

Claim:
A system supporting sharing of one or both of multimedia information and media-related services among a plurality of access devices, the system comprising: a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway selectively exchanging multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and communicating with the plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface; the gateway receiving identification information from each of the plurality of access devices; the gateway collecting, from a first of the plurality of access devices, information descriptive of one or both of multimedia information and media-related services available on the first of the plurality of access devices; the gateway selecting at least a portion of the information descriptive of one or both of the multimedia information and the media-related services available on the first of the plurality of access devices and collected from the first of the plurality of access devices based upon the identification information received from a second of the plurality of access devices; and the gateway distributing to the second of the plurality of access devices the selected portion of the collected information.