Peer-to-peer service designer

A peer-to-peer communication system, comprising:

• a user manager for managing users and groups of users, and for identifying users who are currently on-line;
• a zone manager for managing zones belonging to users, each zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• a zone navigator for identifying a zone belonging to a user who is on-line;
• and
• a service activator for activating the at least one peer-to-peer service included within the identified zone, and for displaying the at least one peer-to-peer service according to the window layout therefor.

A peer-to-peer communication system, comprising:

• a user manager for managing users and groups of users, and for identifying users who are currently on-line;
• a zone manager for managing zones belonging to users, each zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• a privacy manager for restricting access to a zone, to a select group of users;
• and
• a zone navigator for identifying zones accessible to a given user, and belonging to users who are currently on-line.

A peer-to-peer communication system, comprising:

• a user manager for managing users and groups of users, and for identifying users who are currently on-line;
• a zone manager for managing zones belonging to users, each zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• a privacy manager for restricting access to a zone, to a select group of users;
• and
• a zone navigator for identifying zones accessible to a given user, and belonging to users who are currently on-line.

A peer-to-peer communication system, comprising:

• a service manager for managing peer-to-peer services;
• a zone builder for defining a zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• and
• a zone activator for activating the at least one peer-to-peer service within a zone, and for displaying the at least one peer-to-peer service according to the window layout therefor.

A method for peer-to-peer communication, comprising:

• identifying a user who is currently on-line;
• identifying a zone belonging to the user who is currently on-line, the zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• activating the at least one peer-to-peer service within the identified zone;
• and
• displaying the at least one peer-to-peer service according to the window layout therefor.

A method for peer-to-peer communication, comprising:

• selecting at least one peer-to-peer service;
• generating a zone including the selected at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• activating the at least one peer-to-peer service within the identified zone;
• and
• displaying the at least one peer-to-peer service according to the window layout therefor.

A method for peer-to-peer communication, comprising:

• selecting at least one peer-to-peer service;
• generating a zone including the selected at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• selecting at least one user;
• and
• restricting access to the generated zone, to the at least one user.

A method for peer-to-peer communication, comprising:

• managing a plurality of users;
• associating to each individual user, a group of users from among the plurality of users, designated as friends of the individual user;
• further associating to each individual user, at least one zone belonging to the individual user, each such zone including at least one peer-to-peer service and a window display layout therefor;
• and
• associating to each zone belonging to each individual user, a group of users from among the friends of the individual user, entitled to access the zone.