Patent ID: 8159985

Claim:
One or more circuits for use in a system that supports sharing of one or both of multimedia information and media-related services among a plurality of access devices, the one or more circuits comprising: at least one processor operably coupled to interface circuitry for communicating over a broadband network and to at least one wireless interface for communicating over a wireless network, to enable selective communication of multimedia information between and/or among the at least one wireless interface and the broadband network, and wireless communication with the plurality of access devices using the at least one wireless interface, the at least one processor configured to, at least: receive identification information from each of the plurality of access devices; collect, from a first of the plurality of access devices, information descriptive of one or both of multimedia information and media-related services available on the first of the plurality of access devices; select at least a portion of the information descriptive of one or both of the multimedia information and the media-related services available on the first of the plurality of access devices and collected from the first of the plurality of access devices based upon the identification information received from a second of the plurality of access devices; and distribute to the second of the plurality of access devices the selected portion of the collected information.