摘要 |
<p>The universal multimedia access apparatus (20) accesses a predetermined one of the plurality of multimedia applications (23) using an application-specific module (24) interfaced thereto, the application-specific module (24) being selected from a plurality of application-specific modules. The universal multimedia access apparatus (20) comprises a transceiver (26) and a processing unit (40). The transceiver (26) communicates multimedia information between the multimedia network (22) and the application-specific module (24), and communicates with the multimedia network (22) in any one of a plurality of communication modes. The processing unit (40) is operative to identify the application-specific module (24) interfaced thereto and the predetermined one of the plurality of multimedia applications (23) associated with the application-specific module (24), and operative to command the transceiver (26) to communicate with the multimedia network (22) in a mode associated with the predetermined one of the plurality of multimedia applications (23).</p> |