Patent ID: 8073948
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: H04L,H04N,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A communications system comprising: a communications network; a multiplicity of communications terminals which are connectable to said communications network and which can be employed by a plurality of users to communicate via said communications network, wherein a given user of said plurality of users is not necessarily identified with a given communications terminal; a monitor operative to monitor whether or not a specific user of said plurality of users is connected to said communications network irrespective of which of said multiplicity of communications terminals said specific user is employing; a point-to-point connection enabler operative to conditionally allow at least one seeking user of said plurality of users, currently connected to said communications network via any of said multiplicity of communications terminals, to establish a point-to-point connection with at least one other user who is in a set of sought users, said set of sought users being definable by said at least one seeking user; and an authorization request manager operative to: