Patent ID: 8009608

Claim:
A system supporting advertising of user accessibility to multimedia services, the system comprising: a gateway communicatively coupled to a broadband network and at least one wireless interface, the gateway capable of selectively exchanging multimedia information among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and of communicating with a plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface; the gateway capable of providing to the plurality of access devices via the at least one wireless interface, access to at least one media-related service; the gateway transmitting service information comprising a service advertisement of selectable services offered by the gateway, via the at least one wireless interface, to at least a portion of the plurality of access devices; the at least a portion of the plurality of access devices notifying a user of the received service information comprising the service advertisement of the selectable services offered by the gateway; and the gateway downloading, upgrading and/or updating operating code when at least one of the plurality of access devices that supports services or features that are not presently supported by the gateway gains access to the gateway.