Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing real-time communications services to a user. A service node provides user interaction instructions and functional execution instructions to a communication application container executing on a computing host. The user interaction instructions include instructions for the display by a web client of a real-time communications graphical display, such as a softphone graphical interface. A real time communication service is configured by the service node based on user input to the graphical display executing on the communication application container. The service node provides the real time communication service to the user of the computing host based on the functional execution instructions executing on the communication application container.