Patent ID: 8452302

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, at a base station, whether bandwidth demand for a plurality of mobile devices served by the base station exceeds a first bandwidth threshold of a first data communication path, wherein the first data communication path is between the base station and a network that provides data to the base station for the plurality of mobile devices; and in response to determining that the bandwidth demand exceeds the first bandwidth threshold of the first data communication path: establishing, at the base station, a second data communication path between the base station and the network via at least one wireless access point when information identifying the base station is included in an access control list stored at the at least one wireless access point; transmitting a first portion of the data to the plurality of mobile devices, the first portion of the data received from the network via the first data communication path, wherein receipt of the first portion of the data does not exceed the first bandwidth threshold; and transmitting a second portion of the data to the plurality of mobile devices, the second portion of the data received from the network via the second data communication path, wherein receipt of the second portion of the data does not exceed a second bandwidth threshold of the second data communication path.