Patent ID: 9591691
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed under control of a first device, comprising: connecting to an access point that provides a wireless local area network to the first device and a second device; transmitting, to the second device that is connected to the access point, a request to connect to the first device; receiving, from the second device, a response to the request to connect to the first device; configuring an ad-hoc network group including the first device and the second device based, at least in part, on a network load of the first device and a network load of the second device, the network load of the first device being based on the wireless local area network provided to the first device via the access point and the network load of the second device being based on the wireless local area network provided to the second device via the access point, the configuring comprising: responsive to a determination that the difference is equal to or less than the predetermined value, connecting the second device to the wireless local area network via the first device.