Patent ID: 9577971
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A system for reducing data usage for wireless subscription plans, comprising: a first device configured to download an email and an attachment via a wireless subscription plan and a first network for a first recipient; an attachment processing service identifying the attachment on the email, wherein the email ensures that sharing from the first device is based on a credit policy; the first device configured to determine that there is more than one recipient for the email and the attachment; the first device configured to determine that a second device of a second recipient is in a vicinity of the first device; the first device configured to establish verification of the second device with an email fingerprint exchange handshake based on a fingerprint of the email for the second recipient that is computed from a hash of content of the email, an identifier of the attachment, and an email id of the second recipient; and a second network configured to copy the attachment from the first device to the second device.