Patent ID: 8503462

Claim:
A method of enabling remote access to a local gateway of a local network from a remote device located outside the local network, comprising: configuring capabilities and credentials of the remote device and of the local gateway in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core for the remote access, wherein said capabilities and credentials are configured when the remote device is located outside the local network, authorizing one or more users for remote access to the local network by adding an IMS identity of each authorized user to an IMS based Access Control List (ACL), receiving an access request to the local gateway from the remote device over the IMS core, accepting said access request when a user of the remote device has been authorized for remote access responsive to the user's IMS identity in said IMS based ACL, establishing a remote access connection, when accepted, using the configured capabilities and credentials of the remote device located outside the local network and the local gateway, and controlling access for the one or more users in response to the IMS based ACL and authorizing the remote device in response to an UPnP based ACL.