Carrier-grade Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network, system and method

A computer program product being tangibly embodied in at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium and comprising computing device executable code for use with an at least carrier-grade telecommunications network, wherein the at least carrier-grade telecommunications network meets or exceeds five nines availability standards and provides fault recovery through redundancy less than 50 milliseconds, said code comprising:

• code for causing at least some of a plurality of peer computing devices to cooperate with one another over the at least carrier-grade telecommunications network to provide, based on a request from one of the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices via a client user interface, at least carrier-grade telecommunications network native peer-to-peer application support;
• and
• code for collecting charging information from at least some of the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices and providing data indicative of at least a portion of the collected charging information to a billing system associated with the at least carrier-grade telecommunications network, wherein the charging information is adjusted based on the cooperation of the peer computing devices over the at least carrier-grade telecommunications network, wherein the at least carrier-grade telecommunications network comprises
• at least one IP interworking gateway communicatively coupled to at least one-other IP based network and comprising code, which when executed by the at least one IP interworking gateway causes the executing IP interworking gateway to cooperate with at least one of the peer computing devices;
• wherein, the IP interworking gateway is communicatively coupled via the at least carrier-grade telecommunications network to the peer computing devices
• wherein the at least one mediator comprises code, which when executed by the at least one mediator collects charging information from the at least one of the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices,
• wherein the at least one mediator delivers information indicative of the collected charging information to a billing system corresponding to the carrier-grade telecommunications network,
• wherein the carrier-grade telecommunications network comprises wireless links between ones of the peer computing devices,
• wherein the carrier-grade telecommunications network comprises an IP based network, and
• wherein at least one of the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices comprises code, which when executed by the at least one cooperating peer computing device causes the at least one cooperating peer computing device to request a class of service change.