1. A method for remotely accessing user equipment, the method comprising: storing, in a database, a first association between a first type of user request and a first plurality of action requests and a second association between a second type of user request and a second plurality of action requests, wherein each of the first plurality of action requests corresponds to a format that is compatible with a different interactive media guidance application implemented on user equipment; receiving a user request of a given type from a first user equipment; determining which of the first and second types corresponds to the given type of the received user request; in response to determining that the given type of the received user request corresponds to the first type: identifying second user equipment, of a plurality of user equipment capable of performing the first type of user request, that is accessible to the first user equipment; identifying, in the database, an action request of the first plurality of action requests that is compatible with an interactive media guidance application of the second user equipment; and transmitting the identified action request to the second user equipment in the format that is compatible with the interactive media guidance application of the second user equipment.