Patent ID: 8745290

Claim:
A multi-modem device including: a housing; a plurality of modems included within the housing, wherein the modems send and receive data along a common data bus, and wherein at least a portion of the modems in the plurality of modems are associated with different telecommunications carriers; and an interface configured to facilitate communications between the plurality of modems and a host computing device; wherein the plurality of modems is made available to the host computing device to provide one or more communication links to the host computing device at least in part according to configuration modes including: (1) a first mode wherein a modem included in the plurality of modems is selected to be operated individually; and (2) a second mode wherein two or more modems in the plurality of modems are selected to be operated in parallel and communicate data simultaneously such that connectivity provided by the selected two or more modems is aggregated to provide an aggregate single data connection that has an available bandwidth that exceeds the bandwidth that would be available in the event that only one modem in the selected two or more modems was selected to be operated.