Patent ID: 9730110
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a user device connected to a cellular network via a cellular interface of the user device, an instruction to aggregate cellular bandwidth of the user device with the cellular bandwidth of one or more participating user devices; generating, by the user device, a shared character string by randomly selecting characters or receiving a custom character string from a user of the first user device; appending, by the user device, the shared character string to a network name of the user device based on receiving the instruction, wherein the appending the shared character string is based on the generating the shared character string; scanning, by the user device, for wireless local area networks (WLANs) after appending the shared character string; identifying, by the user device, one or more WLAN networks with the network names having the shared character string, wherein the one or more WLAN networks are hosted by the one or more participating user devices; connecting, by the user device, to a particular WLAN network, of the one or more WLAN networks via a WLAN interface of the user device; combining, by the user device, bandwidth from the cellular interface of the user device with the bandwidth from the WLAN interface of the user device; and hosting, by the user device, a WLAN network providing a sum of the bandwidth from the WLAN interface and the cellular interface.