Patent ID: 8326762

Claim:
A control method for controlling a communication relay system for providing a communication service to an existing communication network, comprising: authenticating information from a primary and a secondary user wherein the primary user uses a primary user terminal receiving communication data through a fiber to a home communication line and the secondary user uses a secondary user terminal receiving communication data relayed from the primary user terminal through a power line communication line; encrypting, via a first encryption system, a data communication from a source to a primary communication device connected to the fiber to the home communication line and the primary user terminal, wherein the encrypted data communication identifies the primary communication device; relaying the encrypted data communication from the source to the primary communication device connected to the fiber to the home communication line and the primary user terminal; determining whether the encrypted data communication is directed to the primary communication device or to a secondary communication device connected to the power line communication line and the secondary user terminal; encrypting, via a second encryption system, the encrypted data communication, which is directed to the secondary communication device, to produce a twice-encrypted data communication; passing the twice-encrypted data communication to the secondary communication device through the primary communication device after receiving authorization from the primary communication device; charging a fixed monetary charge to the primary user for communicating performed in the relaying of the data communication to the primary communication device through the fiber to the home communication line; and charging a reduced amount of the fixed monetary charge as a proportioned monetary charge to the secondary user based on a proportional amount of data packets sent and received by the secondary user of the data communication relayed through the fiber to the home communication line.