Patent ID: 8068478
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for providing shared communication resource access, the method comprising steps of: establishing a network of clients, wherein the clients comprise separate residential units or business units, and wherein at least a plurality of the clients in the network of clients have their own associated communication resource connection; providing a communication protocol between the network of clients; providing a protocol for sharing the communication resource connections of the at least some of the clients to the network of clients; and spreading communications from a client in the network of clients among the communication resource connections of the at least a plurality of the clients in the network, wherein the communication resource access comprises Internet access and the communication resource connections of the network of clients comprise Internet access connections, and wherein said steps of providing a protocol for sharing comprises: accepting client session requests for a session with a device outside of the network of clients; and providing a proxy between the device outside of the network of clients and a client requesting a client session.