Patent ID: 8817728

Claim:
A method for third-party assisted peer-to-peer (P2P) communication by a third-party entity, comprising: receiving first information from a first mobile entity, the first information comprising a first message for a second mobile entity; receiving second information from the second mobile entity, the second information comprising a second message for the first mobile entity; coding third information based at least in part on a subset of information bits of the first information and the second information, the third information comprising a key regarding at least one operation performed on bits of the first or second message, wherein the key comprises information regarding respective sizes of the first and second messages, the respective sizes comprising respective transport block sizes (TBSs) of the first and second messages, further comprising, in response to determining the respective TBSs of the first and second messages are different: identifying a given message of the first and second messages with a smaller TBS; and defining the subset of information bits according to the size of the identified given message to match the respective TBSs of the first and second messages; sending the third information to the first and second mobile entities; and transmitting a control signal that includes processing information for decoding the coded third information to extract the first message or the second message.