Patent ID: 8266249

Claim:
A customer premises equipment device for providing a remote hardware device with remote access to multimedia content, the customer premises equipment device comprising: a first input enabled for receiving a hardware identifier that is associated with the remote hardware device that, when received, pre-designates the remote hardware device as approved; a second input enabled for receiving a request from the remote hardware device to remotely receive the multimedia content; a processor enabled for: based on the hardware identifier, verifying that the remote hardware device has been pre-designated as approved; transmitting the multimedia content to the remote hardware device upon verification that the remote hardware device has been pre-designated as approved; responsive to receiving a remote hardware device request to interact with a digital video recorder user interface, transmitting digital video recorder user interface data to the remote hardware device; and responsive to receiving, from the remote hardware device, digital video recorder user interface input indicating a requested digital video recorder function, performing the requested digital video recorder function; a receiver for receiving the multimedia content from a multimedia content provider network; and a transmitter enabled for transmitting the multimedia content to the remote hardware device, wherein the hardware identifier is an International Mobile Equipment Identity number associated with the remote hardware device.