Methods, systems, and products for providing communications services

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing communications services. One method receiving at a service provider a user's request for communications service. The user is permitted to negotiate with other service providers to fulfill the request for communications service.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10 / 720,892, filed Nov. 24, 2003 (Attorney Docket 030356), now issued as U.S. Pat. No. ______, and incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT PROTECTION [0002] A portion of the disclosure of this patent document and its figures contain material subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, but otherwise reserves all copyrights whatsoever. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] 1. Field of the Invention [0004] This invention generally relates to computers and to communications and, more particularly, to processing data in a communications network. [0005] 2. Description of the Related Art [0006] Manipulation of electronic data is important in computer networking and in communications. Often times electronic data must be manipulated for presenta...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0008] The aforementioned problems, and other problems, are reduced by a Analysis Module. This Analysis Module comprises methods, computer systems, computer programs, and computer program products that provide communications services. The Analysis Module extends trust-based credit in sometimes-connected scenarios using linear prediction to facilitate data segmentation, translation, and aggregation transactions. When a user of a client communications device has a history of trust (e.g., consistent payment for communications services), the user may then obtain future communications services without immediate payment. Because the user is “trusted,” a service provider may have freedom and time to aggregate billing between, and / or for, various multiple network operators. Because the user is “trusted,” the service provider could allocate, or award, extra bandwidth as the user needs, possibly from a secondary or tertiary-available network, even though the billing interactions are not immediately pursuable. This invention is especially useful for sometimes-connected solutions, and even more dynamic solutions, because this invention allows the value to be transferred as soon as possible without awaiting billing interactions.

Problems solved by technology

Locally manipulating electronic data, however, poses problems.

This process of storing, manipulating, and / or presenting the electronic data, however, often taxes the limited processing and storage capabilities of the client communications device.

As both those skilled and unskilled recognize, when the processing and / or storage capabilities of the client communications device are overwhelmed, the audio / video presentation may “stumble” and degrade the user experience.

Sometimes the client communications device even experiences a fault or failure when the processing and / or storage capabilities are overwhelmed.

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