Invention Application
- Patent Title: NETWORK BANDWIDTH SHARING FOR SMALL MOBILE DEVICES
- Patent Title (中): 用于小型移动设备的网络带宽共享
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Application No.: US14659930Application Date: 2015-03-17
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Publication No.: US20160095017A1Publication Date: 2016-03-31
- Inventor: Colin M. Ely , Fletcher R. Rothkopf
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Main IPC: H04W28/20
- IPC: H04W28/20 ; H04W76/02 ; H04W4/00 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W4/24 ; H04W16/14 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Client devices with wireless functionality, but without wide area network or cellular network functionality, can obtain network access via a host device, where the host device has network access. Such network access can be obtained when a client device of a user is in local range of a host device, e.g., of a different user. The host device may enable network bandwidth sharing with settings that specify a threshold of resource usage (e.g., battery or bandwidth limit). An authentication process can confirm that either one or both of a client device and a host device are registered for the network bandwidth sharing. A server can monitor the amount of resources shared by the host device, and manage incentives to the user of the host device.
Public/Granted literature
- US09526032B2 Network bandwidth sharing for small mobile devices Public/Granted day:2016-12-20
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