Patent ID: 7263102

Claim:
A personal digital gateway, comprising: a database of personal digital gateway rule-based profiles for communicating data to a communications device selected from a plurality of communications devices, the rule-based profile categorizing 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; a processor communicating with a memory device, the processor associating a personal digital gateway rule-based profile with the selected communications device; and a communications interface between the personal digital gateway and, the selected communications device, wherein the personal digital gateway enables communication of the data with each communications device of the plurality of communications devices, the plurality of communications devices comprising at least one of 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, and wherein the memory device is removable from the personal digital gateway.