Information acquisition decision making by devices in a wireless network

A telecommunications advertisement receiving device comprising a short range piconet receiver and an advertisement filter or assessor, and a long range telecommunications emitter.

A mobile telecommunications device having a memory a short range piconet receiver an emitter, and a controller, the controller controlling the device in use to assess messages received by the receiver for a reply telecommunications address and to store any such reply address in the memory, and the device also having a reply trigger adapted in use to cause the controller to use an address from the memory to send a reply to a received message to the address associated with the relevant incoming message.

A mobile telephone or other mobile telecommunications device having both a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver, and a piconet telecommunications transmitter and receiver, a control processor, and a memory storage medium;

• wherein the memory storage medium contains an advertisement to be transmitted via the piconet transmitter, the control processor being adapted to broadcast the advertisement over the piconet transmitter and being adapted to monitor piconet signals that are received by the piconet receiver for a reply.

A network comprising an advertiser device comprising a hybrid mobile telephone, or other telecommunications device, having both a short range transmitter and receiver, and also a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver, a memory, and a control processor;

• the memory containing both a short-form advertisement and a longer more detailed advertisement related to the short-form advertisement;
• a consumer device comprising a hybrid mobile telephone, or other telecommunications device, having both a short range, piconet, transmitter and receiver, and also a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver, a memory and a control processor, the consumer device being adapted to request the longer advertisement for the advertiser device following receipt of that short-form advertisement of interest.