MARKET-DRIVEN VARIABLE PRICE OFFERINGS FOR BANDWIDTH-SHARING AD HOC NETWORKS
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1. A method comprising establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers to form a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage.
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Systems and methods to establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers. A bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage is formed based on the established and executed market-driven variable price offering.
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- 1. A method comprising establishing and executing market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers to form a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage.
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31. A method of establishing an ad hoc network comprising:
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requesting to borrow bandwidth from a lender; receiving acknowledgment as to whether there is a conflict between at least one potential borrower and the lender; resolving the conflict; and establishing the ad hoc network when the conflict is resolved. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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- 39. A method for deploying a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network, comprising providing a computer infrastructure being operable to establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers to form a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage.
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41. 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 establish and execute market-driven variable price offerings among lenders and borrowers to form a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage.
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