Method and system for mediating interactive services over a wireless communications network

A system comprising:

• a communication server coupled to a plurality of user communication devices over a wireless network, wherein the communication server is capable of:
• facilitating interactive communications services to a plurality of users using the plurality of user communications devices;
• detecting degradation in performance of the interactive communications services between two or more of the plurality of user communications devices;
• requesting, after a predetermined temporal period, state information from at least two of the plurality of user communications devices, wherein the state information is indicative of the degradation;
• receiving data indicative of the requested state information and detecting, using the requested stated information, differences in degradation between a first and a second of the at least two of the plurality of user communications devices;
• alleviating a perception of the degradation between the first and the second of the at least two of the plurality of user communications devices by smoothing the interactive communications services at one of the at least two of the plurality of user communications devices if the differences exceed a given threshold;
• identifying a skill level associated with said communications services of at least one of said plurality of users;
• and
• communicating said identified skill level to at least one other of said plurality of users.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions which when executed by one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to perform one or more operations comprising:

• facilitating interactive communications services to a plurality of users using a plurality of user communications devices via a communications server over a wireless network;
• detecting degradation in performance of the interactive communications services between two or more of the plurality of user communications devices;
• requesting, after a predetermined temporal period, state information from at least two of the plurality of user communications devices, wherein the state information is indicative of the degradation;
• receiving data indicative of the requested state information and detecting, using the requested stated information, differences in degradation between a first and a second of the at least two of the plurality of user communications devices;
• alleviating a perception of the degradation between the first and the second of the at least two of the plurality of user communications devices by smoothing the interactive communications services at one of the at least two of the plurality of user communications devices if the differences exceed a given threshold;
• identifying a skill level associated with said communications services of at least one of said plurality of users;
• and
• communicating said identified skill level to at least one other of said plurality of users.