Patent ID: 8126439

Claim:
A method of providing multimedia services to a subscriber within a domain of a communication network, wherein the subscriber utilizes one or more predetermined access terminals to access the multimedia services according to a current network presence configuration of the subscriber selected from a plurality of network presence configurations, wherein each access terminal has respective multimedia capabilities, and wherein the domain includes an application server for accessing the multimedia services, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a user profile for the subscriber including a plurality of presence identifiers, the user profile relating each respective presence identifier to a respective user service definition, wherein each user service definition specifies a set of the predetermined access terminals and respective multimedia services to be available for a respective network presence configuration; registering a current presence identifier of the subscriber; the application server accessing the user profile to determine a user service definition corresponding to the current presence identifier; the subscriber initiating one of the multimedia services by sending a request to the application server from one of the access terminals in the set of predetermined access terminals; the application server interfacing with the multimedia service to obtain multimedia content from the initiated multimedia service; the application server determining rules of service delivery according to the set of predetermined access terminals; the application server re-formatting received multimedia content according to the rules of service delivery for the set of predetermined access terminals; and the application server transmitting re-formatted multimedia content to the corresponding access terminals.