Patent ID: 8578039

Claim:
A method for sending information through a firewall, comprising the steps of: providing a stimulus response mechanism which executes steps for: implementing said stimulus response mechanism in a broadband enabled telephone system in which SIP messages are sent to and from a SIP end point; providing at least one base station comprising: a first communications facility; a broadband network connection for establishing and maintaining broadband access to said network via said first communications facility; and a second communications facility for interacting with, and maintaining profile information for, a plurality of handsets; providing an SIP server configured to serve SIP messages to said plurality of handsets; pushing an event and an address to a user handset selected from said plurality of handsets via a SIP message through said SIP server wherein said event announces that there is content for the user and the address identifies where the user goes to get the content and wherein the address is an http address in the form of a URL that is not seen by the user and is automatically interpreted; and when the SIP message is received at the user handset, said user device using said http address to pull the content from the address contained in the SIP message according to said profile information for said user handset, wherein the method is implemented in hardware.