Patent ID: 8605742

Claim:
A system, comprising: a plurality of mobile devices, each of the plurality of mobile devices being configured to establish a wireless connection with a network; and a router in selective communication with a local device and the plurality of mobile devices, the router being configured to: establish a local connection with each of the plurality of mobile devices, cause at least one of the plurality of mobile devices to establish a connection with the network, receive a request for a network service from the local device, determine whether one or more of the plurality of mobile devices have reserved a portion of its own respective bandwidth for its own respective future use, provide the requested network service to the local device via a plurality of wireless connections between the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices that have established a connection with the network and the network; instruct at least one additional mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices to establish a wireless connection with the network if it is determined that there is insufficient available bandwidth among the wireless connections already established between the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices and the network to provide the requested network service to the local device; aggregate at least two of the wireless connections between ones of the plurality of mobile devices and the network to create an aggregated connection; and provide the requested network service to the local device via the aggregated connection.