Patent ID: 7949332

Claim:
A mobile telephone configured to use a feature of another mobile telephone, the mobile telephones each comprising: a share module for allowing access between the mobile telephones to share selected features on the mobile telephones via the share modules, if a user of an other mobile telephone is a selected trusted party of a user of one of the mobile telephones and the selected features are not available on the other mobile telephone, for obtaining details of one of the selected features on one of the mobile telephones which are available for use by the other mobile telephone; a user interface for selecting an available feature from a list of the one or more features; a network-based share coordinator configured as an intermediary between the mobile telephones, the share coordinator protecting respective addresses of each of the mobile telephones; and a communication module for communicating data between the mobile telephones to enable the selected feature to be used on the one of the mobile telephones by the user of the other mobile telephone without transferring the feature to the other mobile telephone.