Patent ID: 9491093
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to distribute communication of a first data stream among multiple devices, the method comprising: receiving a first request from a primary device to establish a shared connection with a distribution system, the shared connection to distribute the communication of the first data stream among a plurality of devices, the plurality of devices including the primary device and a plurality of secondary devices; associating, with a processor of the distribution system, a textual identification code with the first request as an identifier to identify ones of the secondary devices to group into the shared connection; providing, to the primary device in response to the first request, the textual identification code and a plurality of network addresses of the distribution system assigned by the distribution system to the first request and allocated to the plurality of secondary devices for sending subsequent requests containing information including the textual identification code from the secondary devices to the distribution system to establish respective secondary data connections between the distribution system and the secondary devices; and splitting the first data stream into a plurality of partial data streams to be communicated respectively to the primary device via a primary data connection and the plurality of secondary devices via the respective secondary data connections, the partial data streams, when aggregated, forming the first data stream.