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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsChristopher J. Dawson, Peter G. Finn, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Jenny S. Li
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Systems and methods for compensating lenders of bandwidth in an ad hoc network and, more particularly, to systems and methods for providing payment strategies for bandwidth sharing in an ad-hoc network. The method comprises establishing an ad-hoc network between a borrower and at least one lender of bandwidth, and providing compensation instructions to compensate the at least one lender of bandwidth for lending the bandwidth to the borrower. The system may be a computer infrastructure for implementing the steps of the method.
A method, comprising:
A method, comprising:
A method for providing a payment scheme in an ad hoc network, comprising:
A system comprising a server having a database containing data associated with one or more payment instructions for implementation in an ad-hoc network, and at least one of a hardware and software component for establishing the ad-hoc network between a borrower and at least one lender of bandwidth, and compensating the at least one lender of bandwidth for lending the bandwidth to the borrower based on the one or more payment instructions.
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer program product includes at least one component to:
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