Patent ID: 9516679
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: communicatively coupling a plurality of communication devices to a control network, each of the plurality of communication devices having a control network connection to each of other communication devices of the plurality of communication devices, and each of at least a subset of the plurality of communication devices having a wide area network connection to a wide area communication network, each wide area network connection having a wide area network connection bandwidth; parceling first data into data packets, wherein the first data is outgoing data associated with a first one of the plurality of communication devices, wherein the parceling is determined based on available bandwidths of the wide area network connections; distributing respective ones of the data packets to respective ones of the at least a subset of the plurality of communication devices; and delivering the data packets from the respective ones of the at least a subset of the plurality of communication devices over respective ones of the wide area network connections.