Patent ID: 8165135

Claim:
A micro-internet service provider platform, comprising: customer premise equipment configurable to connect via a mesh network to broadband service provider equipment of a broadband service provider, wherein the customer premise equipment is configured to provide broadband service from the broadband service provider equipment wirelessly to third party devices, wherein the mesh network is configured to distribute data traffic generated by the third party devices across a plurality of customer premise equipment that includes the customer premise equipment of the micro-internet service provider platform, wherein the mesh network reassembles the distributed traffic at the broadband service equipment, wherein access to the plurality of customer premise equipment is provided simultaneously to achieve a desired quality of service, wherein owners of the customer premise equipment and users of the third party devices are different parties each procuring broadband services of the broadband service provider, wherein the customer premise equipment logs broadband service usage information of each of the third party devices and provides the broadband service usage information to the broadband service provider equipment, and wherein the broadband service provider rewards the owner of the customer premise equipment and imposes a charge on each user of the third party devices based on broadband service usage information received by the broadband service provider equipment.