Patent ID: 8087047

Claim:
A method for remotely accessing user equipment implementing an interactive media guidance application, the method comprising: storing, in a database, a mapping between a user request and a plurality of action requests each corresponding to a different user equipment format, wherein each different user equipment format corresponds to a different user equipment characteristic; receiving, at a remote server, a user input from a user device, wherein the user input indicates instructions for an identified user equipment having at least one characteristic; identifying the user request stored in the database corresponding to the instructions indicated by the user input in response to receiving the user input; identifying the plurality of action requests mapped to the identified user request in response to receiving the user input; retrieving from the database, one of the plurality of the action requests corresponding to the user equipment format compatible with the at least one characteristic of the identified user equipment; and transmitting the retrieved one of the plurality of action requests in the user equipment format for receipt by the identified user equipment for enabling execution of the indicated instructions, wherein the interactive media guidance application implemented on the user equipment directs the user equipment to execute the indicated instructions.