Patent ID: 8639810

Claim:
A method comprising: causing, at least in part, actions that result in reception, at a user device in response to an ad hoc device introduction by a peer of a peer-to-peer network, of user-specific usage rights and a resource discovery record associated with one or more computing resources available at the peer for discovery by the user device, wherein the resource discovery record describes the computing resources and how to access the computing resources at the peer via the peer-to-peer network, access to view the resource discovery record being controlled per user, the user-specific usage rights defining per user permission to use discovered computing resources of peers; causing, at least in part, actions that result in presentation, via a user interface of the user device, of one or more graphical components each representing one of the computing resources according to the resource discovery record; causing, at least in part, actions that result in transmission to the peer, in response to a user selection of one or more of the graphical components, a request to access one or more of the represented computing resources; and utilizing the represented computing resources according to usage limitations defined by the user-specific usage rights.