Sprint Communications Comapny L.p.

Thomas Michael Hughson

Raymond Emilio Reeves

Ryan Alan Wick

Wen Xue

Provides a consumer of digital products with an experience like that of visiting a shopping mall, where a product may be 'tried on,' or downloaded, without having to pay until it's actually used. A consumer may download three identical copies of an item, but not be billed for any of the downloads until one of the copies of the item is actually installed or used on the client device. At that point, a purchase of that particular copy of the item is deemed to have occurred and the user is billed for that particular copy. The sale is credited to the provider that the particular copy is associated with, based on a transaction identifier that associates that particular copy of the item with the client device and the provider. The unused copies of the item may automatically be deleted or disabled once the purchase has occurred.

Tracking the download and purchase of digital content

A message system comprises a communication interface and a processing system. The communication interface is configured to receive a message object addressed to a user. The processing system is configured to store a copy of the message object, process the message object based on user decomposition instructions to generate a decomposed message object, select a delivery mechanism for the decomposed message object based on user delivery instructions, and direct the communication interface to transfer the decomposed message object for delivery to the user according to the delivery mechanism. The communication interface configured to transfer the decomposed message object for delivery to the user according to the delivery mechanism.

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Boscawen, NH, United States of America

Thomas Michael Hughson