Systems and methods for providing remote access to interactive media guidance applications

A method for remotely accessing user equipment, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a remote server implementing an interactive media guidance application, a user input from a user device, wherein the user input indicates instructions for the user equipment, and wherein the user equipment is associated with a characteristic;
• identifying a user request corresponding to the instructions indicated by the user input;
• identifying a plurality of action requests mapped to the identified user request;
• generating one of the plurality of the action requests corresponding to the user equipment format compatible with the characteristic associated with the user equipment;
• and
• transmitting the one of the plurality of action requests in the user equipment format for receipt by the user equipment for enabling execution of the indicated instructions.

A system for remotely accessing user equipment, the system comprising a remote server implementing an interactive media guidance application, wherein the remote server is configured to:

• receive a user input from a user device, wherein the user input indicates instructions for the user equipment, and wherein the user equipment is associated with a characteristic;
• identify a user request corresponding to the instructions indicated by the user input;
• identify a plurality of action requests mapped to the identified user request;
• generate one of the plurality of the action requests corresponding to the user equipment format compatible with the characteristic associated with the user equipment;
• and
• transmit the one of the plurality of action requests in the user equipment format for receipt by the user equipment for enabling execution of the indicated instructions.