Patent ID: 8082363

Claim:
A method of communicating data between a first computing device and a second computing device over a transport employing a communication protocol, the second computing device also including wireless communication capabilities for transmitting data over a wireless network, the method comprising: generating first packets responsive to receiving first data from a first application executed on the first computing device, wherein the first application comprises a dial-up networking application for utilizing the second computing device as a wireless modem for the first computing device to transmit data over the wireless network; generating second packets responsive to receiving second data from a second application executed on the first computing device, wherein the second application comprises an application for performing operations on the second computing device other than utilizing the second computing device as the wireless modem for the first computing device; generating third packets responsive to receiving third data from a third application executed on the first computing device, wherein the third application comprises an application for logging radio performance information of the second computing device, and operates concurrently with the first application; adding first tags to the first packets, the first tags representing that the first packets include data associated with utilizing the second computing device as the wireless modem; adding second tags to the second packets, the second tags representing that the second packets include data not associated with utilizing the second computing device as the wireless modem; adding third tags to the third packets, the third tags representing that the third packets include data associated with radio performance of the second computing device; multiplexing the first, the second and the third packets added with the first, second and third tags, respectively; and transmitting the multiplexed packets over the transport according to the communication protocol.