LOCATION-BASED, SERVER ASSISTED PEER TO PEER SERVICE WITH EXTENSIBLE SERVICE CATEGORIES

摘要

Peer-to-peer service agreements can be facilitated by a third party without the terms of the service agreement being brokered by the third-party. In one example, a user sends a service request to a network node maintained by the third-party. The third-party operator identifies candidate service providers registered to provide the requested service, and sends referrals to the identified candidates. The referrals may be sent to each candidate device without filtering the candidate devices based on their real-time locations. The referrals may prompt a service agreement to be independently established between operators of the requesting device and one of the candidate devices without brokering from the third-party.