Patent ID: 8265050

Claim:
A method for sharing a payload among mobile devices in a wireless network comprising: configuring a first mobile device to communicate with an access device via a first wireless path and with a media gateway server via a second wireless path; configuring one or more other mobile devices to communicate with the media gateway server via the second wireless path and with the first mobile device via a third wireless path; receiving at the first mobile device a payload from the access device via the first wireless path, wherein the payload comprises data and a destination address; partitioning the payload into portions; assigning one portion to the first mobile device and assigning the remaining portions to each of the one or more other mobile devices; sending from the first mobile device and each of the one or more other devices the assigned payload portion to the media gateway server via the second wireless path; receiving the payload portions at the media gateway server; reconstructing the payload from the received payload portions; and sending the payload to the destination address via a network.