Patent ID: 9374850
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of enabling a computer system to maintain concurrent connections with a plurality of ad hoc wireless networks using a single physical adapter, the ad hoc wireless networks of the plurality of ad hoc wireless networks each employing an ad hoc network protocol for communications, the method comprising: associating a driver to the physical adapter that is configured to receive data from multiple ad hoc wireless networks of the plurality of ad hoc wireless networks; establishing, by the driver, at least two interfaces between the physical adapter and at least one upper layer networking stack, each of the at least two interfaces concurrently interfacing the physical adapter with the at least one upper layer networking stack for a different ad hoc wireless network of the plurality of ad hoc wireless networks; receiving, by the driver, an outgoing data packet from the at least one upper layer networking stack; adding, by the driver, a network protocol frame header to the outgoing data packet; and forwarding, by the driver, the data packet over the physical adapter.