Patent ID: 8923165

Claim:
A method for providing wireless online access to a multitude of users, each user of the multitude being located within a corresponding one of multiple moving vehicles, the method comprising: providing online access to corresponding users of the multitude that are located within each one of the multiple moving vehicles by data packet transmission via (i) one or more corresponding wireless communications links established, within a corresponding mobile online access signal space within each one of the multiple moving vehicles by a primary subscriber, between one or more corresponding mobile primary wireless transceivers in or on each moving vehicle and one or more corresponding mobile secondary wireless transceivers used by the corresponding users within that moving vehicle, and (ii) one or more corresponding wireless communications links established between each corresponding primary wireless transceiver and a corresponding one of multiple stationary portal transceivers; as each vehicle moves, shifting the corresponding wireless communications link between the corresponding primary wireless transceiver and the corresponding portal transceiver to a different one of the multiple portal transceivers; providing for each corresponding secondary wireless transceiver a graphical user interface for each corresponding user to utilize the provided online access; and receiving, from the primary subscriber, or crediting, to the primary subscriber, one or more revenue amounts calculated automatically by one or more processors among one or more billing units, in return for the established wireless communications links or the wireless online access provided for one or more users among the multitude of users, wherein: the revenue amount is based at least in part on (i) how many mobile secondary wireless transceivers are linked to the corresponding primary wireless transceivers by the corresponding established wireless communications links or (ii) a volume of data packets received or transmitted by the secondary wireless transceivers used by the multitude of users within the multiple moving vehicles; and each one of the one or more portal transceivers includes one or more corresponding communications links to the Internet for receiving one or more data packets transmitted therefrom and transmitting one or more data packets thereto.