Patent ID: 8116729

Claim:
A system for establishing sessions to share multimedia content between two or more mobile devices across a wireless local network and record shared multimedia content for charging purposes, the system comprising: a local Call Session Control Function (CSCF) component associated with a telecommunications carrier and coupled to a single wireless access point, the local CSCF component configured to: receive a request from a sending mobile device via the single wireless access point to establish a multimedia communication session with one or more receiving mobile devices; determine whether the one or more receiving mobile devices are communicatively coupled to the single wireless access point; establish a multimedia communication session between the sending mobile device and one or more receiving mobile devices that are coupled to the single wireless access point such that multimedia transmitted during the multimedia communication session is substantially transmitted via the wireless local network generated by the single wireless access point; and monitor a characteristic of the multimedia communication session; and a secure billing agent coupled to the local CSCF component and configured to: store the monitored characteristic of the multimedia communication session in a session record; and transmit the session record to the telecommunications carrier to enable charges to be levied for the multimedia communication session that occurred over the wireless local network.