Patent ID: 8577347

Claim:
A mobile broadband hotspot for managing a data sharing over a hotspot network, the mobile broadband hotspot comprising: a memory; and a processor configured to: receive a first request from a first mobile device via the hotspot network to receive a data file; download the data file via a wide area network in communication with the mobile broadband hotspot; store the data file in the memory of the mobile broadband hotspot; transmit, via the hotspot network, the data file to the first mobile device in response to receiving the first request from the first mobile device; receive a second request from a second mobile device via the hotspot network to receive the data file; determine that the data file is in the memory and that the mobile broadband hotspot is authorized to share the data file with the second mobile device; in response to determining that the data file in the memory is authorized to be shared with the second mobile device, retrieve the data file from the memory, without downloading the data file via the wide area network; transmit, via the hotspot network, the data file retrieved from the memory to the second mobile device in response to receiving the second request from the second mobile device.