Patent ID: 7764776

Claim:
A network, comprising: one or more application server components that employ one or more data streams to provide to a telephony device on a remote network for a user one or more line-side services associated with a network address on a home network for the user, said one or more application server components being operable to employ the network address to determine the one or more line-side services, wherein at least one of the one or more line-side services is a notification event from one or more of the one or more application server components to the telephony device; and wherein the one or more of the one or more application server components and the telephony device cooperate to establish one or more web portals; and wherein the one or more of the one or more application server components provide one or more eXtended Markup Language (XML) interfaces to the telephony device through employment of the one or more web portals.