Patent ID: 7224698

Claim:
A method, comprising the steps of: identifying data according to a rule-based engine to categorize the data as at least one of (1) data associated with an access agent, (2) data associated with a configuration agent, (3) data associated with a security agent, and (4) data associated with a management agent, wherein the data is associated with a common user of a personal digital gateway and of at least one of a communications network and a communications device selected from a plurality of communications devices; using the access agent to locate remote data, the remote data stored on at least one of the network and the selected communications device; using the configuration agent to configure a query to retrieve the remote data, the configuration agent associated with a configuration profile for at least one of the network and the selected communications device; using the security agent to access the at least one of the network and the selected communications device to retrieve the remote data; integrating the data and the remote data; and using the configuration agent to format the integrated data for a presentation format to the selected communications device, wherein the personal digital gateway enables communication of at least one of the data, the remote, and the integrated data with each communications device of a plurality of communications devices, the plurality of communications devices comprising a wireless communications device, a mobile phone, a wireless phone, a WAP phone, an IP phone, a satellite phone, a computer, a modem, a pager, a digital music device, a digital recording device, a personal digital assistant, an interactive television, a digital signal processor, and a Global Positioning System device.