Patent ID: 8121073

Claim:
In a wireless data network having a plurality of mobile devices, a method comprising: a processor executing one or more enhanced transmission enabling components (ETECs) to connect an originating mobile device to one or more carrier mobile devices; wherein the one or more carrier mobile devices may be moved in and out of one or more network zones, wherein the one or more network zones enable forward transmission of data received from the originating device at the one or more carrier mobile devices via an accessible network path, wherein said forward transmission occurs using at least one carrier mobile device of the one or more carrier mobile devices and the accessible network path corresponding to a network zone of the one or more network zones in which the at least one carrier mobile device is located, and wherein the network zone is a uniquely identifiable network space, and the originating mobile device is located in a first network zone of the one or more network zones; communicating, from the originating mobile device to one or more of the one or more carrier mobile devices, a request for at least one of the one or more carrier mobile devices to provide a transmission of data from the originating mobile device to a target device; the processor receiving a response from one or more carrier mobile devices of the one or more carrier mobile devices, wherein the response includes zone interaction data for each carrier mobile device that responded to the request, and wherein the response further includes discrete rankings for a probability of entering zones assigned to each carrier mobile device of the one or more carrier mobile devices; the processor selecting, based on the received rankings, at least one carrier mobile device from the one or more carrier mobile devices that responded to the request; and the processor enabling, based on the zone interaction data, a transmission of a message containing the data from the originating mobile device to the target device utilizing the selected at least one carrier mobile device and accessible network paths of the selected at least one carrier mobile device; wherein the target device is located in a second network zone of the one or more network zones unique to the first network zone, and wherein the transmission of the message containing the data occurs via transmission of the message containing the data from the originating mobile device to the selected at least one carrier mobile device and then through one or more accessible network paths that are accessible to the selected at least one carrier mobile device but are not accessible to the originating mobile device to complete the transmission of the data to the target device.