Patent ID: 9578538
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for forming and rearranging a bandwidth sharing ad hoc network for data transfer among mobile computing devices, comprising providing a computer infrastructure being operable to: broadcast a table to at least one potential bandwidth lender requesting pertinent lender information; receive the table from the at least one potential bandwidth lender with the pertinent lender information; upon receiving the table, select one or more bandwidth lenders of the at least one potential bandwidth lender based on the pertinent lender information in the table meeting preset criteria; establish a bandwidth sharing ad hoc network with the one or more bandwidth lenders based on the selecting; and waiting a predetermined amount of time (grace period) for quality of service (QoS) update information from the at least one bandwidth lender, wherein the bandwidth sharing ad hoc network is a communication network amongst a mobile computing device of the one or more bandwidth lenders and a mobile computing device of a bandwidth borrower, in which the one or more bandwidth lenders selectively lends bandwidth to the bandwidth borrower for downloading data or uploading data.