Patent ID: 8514701

Claim:
A communication device comprising: at least two modems, an application processor configured to distribute data from an application residing on the communication device to said at least two modems for RF transmission; an aggregation controller configured to select from the at least two modems to form a set of selected modems for a radio-frequency-link aggregation group; a connectivity module configured to send, to an operator network, subscription information and modem identifiers for the selected modems in the radio-frequency-link aggregation group, wherein the subscription information enables the operator network to bill an account associated with the selected modems; monitor availability of the at least two modems for the radio-frequency-link aggregation group; and acknowledge that the operator network, connected to radio frequency links of the radio-frequency-link aggregation group, has agreed to handle aggregated data from the radio-frequency-link aggregation group; and an aggregation module configured to receive data from the application and distribute data to the selected modems in accordance with an aggregation algorithm; and wherein said selected modems are configured to send distributed data received from the application processor over a radio frequency link to a radio frequency node in the operator network.