Patent ID: 9294992
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of providing a service availability indication to a user terminal, comprising: obtaining a data structure representative of user terminals and of inter-terminal relationships derived from one or more communication parameters pertaining to communications between the user terminals; obtaining, for at least some of the user terminals, service utilization information for each of a plurality of services; selecting, for at least one user terminal and from the plurality of services, a service not used by the at least one user terminal, wherein the selecting is based on the service utilization information provided for user terminals having a predefined association with the at least one user terminal as determined by the inter-terminal relationships; sending a message indicative of the selected service to the at least one user terminal; and providing the selected service, or access to the selected service, to the at least one user terminal when the at least one user terminal uses the selected service.