Patent ID: 8170056
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is not a transient signal, the computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon which, when loaded by a computer, provide for dynamic bandwidth allocation among a plurality of wireless device clients of a wireless wide-area network (WWAN), wherein the clients are within wireless signal reception of each other, and wherein each client has an allocated bandwidth for communicating over the WWAN, the computer-readable instructions comprising instructions for: forming a pool of at least two clients wherein an unused portion of a client bandwidth is available for sharing by at least one client in the pool; identifying a communication manager to manage traffic between the pool clients and the WWAN, wherein each client has access, if needed, to a entire client's own allocated bandwidth, wherein each client has access to at least a portion of other clients' unused bandwidths, and wherein the communication manager controls sharing of unutilized bandwidths and flow of data by identifying clients of the pool with excess bandwidth and choosing at least some identified clients of the pool to participate in the communication process; and receiving data from a data transmitting client of the pool, preparing the received data for distribution among pool clients chosen for reception, and distributing the prepared data among the chosen pool clients for transmission over the WWAN; and obtaining data portions received by clients chosen for reception from the WWAN, assembling obtained data for transmission to a destination pool client, and transmitting assembled data to the destination pool client.