Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Nokia Technologies Oy

Ian James Ray

Kari Leppanen

Edward Sean Lloyd Rintel

Kenton Paul Anthony O'Hara

Daniel Wilkinson Gratiot

Philip Charles Gosset

Richard Harry Robert Harper

Samuli Hanninen

Kimmo Lehtosalo

A telecommunications device sends and receives messages comprising data about telecommunications resources and resource state of proximate devices. The telecommunications device has a processor configured to determine a proximate resource pool using at least the telecommunication resources of the other devices, and the state of the telecommunications resources of the other devices, the proximate resource pool comprising a list of content streams being generated by, or potentially being generated by, specified ones of the other devices. The processor is configured to receive instructions from one of the other devices, the instructions being to add, divert or stop a specified content stream of the proximate resource pool within a telecommunications activity ongoing at the device. In various examples, the processor is configured to execute the instructions responsive to the instructions being from a trusted device, or responsive to user authorization.

Proximate resource pooling in video/audio telecommunications

An approach is provided for discovering proximity-based and/or location-based services over an ad-hoc network. A request to share at least one content item from at least one device is determined. Further, one or more compressed representations of the at least one content item are generated, where the one or more compressed representations include at least one link for retrieving the at least one content item. Furthermore, the one or more compressed representations are broadcast in one or more broadcast messages over an ad-hoc network to one or more other devices.

Method and apparatus for ad-hoc content sharing

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