A novel method of and system for providing common value-added services for
two-way point-to-point, multi-point-to-multi-point, point-to-multi-point,
and/or multi-point-to-point real-time communications using various
communication protocols. The present invention provides common
value-added service protocols for receiving a request from a first of a
multiple of communication protocol sources for a first value-added
service using the first common value-added service protocol, and
providing the requested first value-added service to the first
communication protocol source using the first common value-added service
protocol. The present invention further includes receiving a request from
a second of the multiple communication protocol sources for the first
value-added service using the first common value-added service protocol,
and providing the requested first value-added service to the second
communication protocol source using the first common value-added service
protocol.