Patent ID: 7548749

Claim:
A method of establishing wireless bridge between a first computing device and a second computing device that is within transmission range on a wireless network so that the first computing device can access critical resources of the second computing device, the critical resources including a processor and memory of the second computing device, the method comprising: detecting at the first computing device the presence of the second computing device within transmission range on the wireless network, the first computing device having a front-side bus connecting a processor to memory and a wireless bus interface connected to the front-side bus; establishing a wireless connection between the first computing device and the second computing device; exchanging credentials between the first computing device and the second computing device; and when the exchanged credentials indicate that the second computing device supports sharing of its critical resources, establishing a wireless bridge between the first computing device and a wireless bus interface of the second computing device; receiving from the second computing device a list of available critical resources of the second computing device; creating at the first computing device a single logical computing entity that includes resources of the first computing device and the available critical resources of the second computing device; performing an assignment of work by fragmenting at the first computing device the work to be performed between the processor of the first computing device and an available processor of the second computing device such that the processor of the first computing device performs a fragment of the work and the available processor of the second computing device performs another fragment of the work that is provided to the second computing device via the wireless bridge; and performing memory management of the memory of the second computing device by the first computing device wherein the memory management performed by the first computing device includes allocation and deallocation of memory of the second computing device for a fragment of work assigned by the first computing device to the available processor of the second computing device.