System and method for communication between mobile devices
AssigneeGenband US LLC
InventorsAlex Nerst, Avi Shechter, Boaz Zilberman
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Abstract
Method for transferring an entitlement from a first party to a second party in a communication network. The second party which is preferably a mobile communication connects to a mobile communication network and to a peer-to-peer network. The second party selects, over the peer-to-peer network, entitlement offered by the first party to purchase or to use a product or a service. The second party effects the entitlement, using the mobile communication terminal, to purchase or to use the product or the service.
Claims20
A method for communicating from a first party to a second party, the first party using a first mobile communication terminal, and the second party a using a second mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:
- connecting the first mobile communication terminal to a mobile communication network;
- connecting the first mobile communication terminal to a peer-to-peer network;
- offering a communication service for sharing with another party by publishing the offer using an exchange or publishing server of the peer-to-peer network;
- attaching a condition to the offer, where the condition includes a limitation on use or sharing of the communication service;
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- sharing the communication service with the second party in response to the second mobile communication terminal selecting the communication service from the exchange server by the first mobile communication terminal connecting with a third mobile communication terminal over the mobile communication network and connecting with the second mobile communication terminal over the peer-to-peer network and in accordance with the limitation on use or sharing.
A computer program product, stored on one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, comprising instructions operative to cause a programmable processor of a first mobile communication terminal to:
- connect the first mobile communication terminal to a mobile telephone network and a peer-to-peer network;
- publish an offer to share a communication service of the mobile telephone network with other users of the peer-to-peer network, where publishing the offer includes posting the offer using a network server of the peer-to-peer network or publishing the offer directly to a second mobile communication terminal also connected to the peer-to-peer network;
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- in response to a selection of the communication service by the second mobile communication terminal, sharing the communication service with a user of the second mobile communication terminal subject to a condition of use or a condition of sharing by the first mobile communication terminal connecting with a third mobile communication terminal over the mobile telephone network and connecting with the second mobile communication terminal over the peer-to-peer network.
A first mobile communication terminal device comprising:
- a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of communicating with a second mobile communication terminal device;
- a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to:
- receive a communication service for use on a mobile communication network;
- connect the first mobile communication terminal device to the mobile communication network and to a peer-to-peer network;
- publish an offer to share the communication service with another mobile communication terminal device, wherein publishing the offer includes either publishing the offer on a network server of the peer-to-peer network or publishing the offer directly to the second mobile communication terminal device via the peer-to-peer network;
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- sharing the communication service with a user of the second mobile communication terminal device in response to a selection of the communication service by the user of the second mobile communication terminal device, wherein sharing the communication service includes by the first mobile communication terminal device connecting with a third mobile communication terminal device over the mobile communication network and connecting with the second mobile communication terminal device over the peer-to-peer network, wherein the sharing is limited by conditions placed on the sharing by a user of the first mobile communication terminal device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.