Patent ID: 8818913

Claim:
A method implemented on at least one computing device each of which has one or more processors, storage, and communication platform connected to a network for providing network access to a customer at a place of business operated by a merchant, comprising: setting up a data communication link between the merchant and a wide area network to provide a service having a subscribed data transport capacity dedicated to the merchant at the place of business; facilitating a customer of the merchant present at the place of business to utilize the dedicated service for the merchant to access, via a network access point installed at the place of business, the Internet via the data communication link; integrating, by a router coupled to the merchant and the network access point, a first data traffic, received from the merchant, and a second data traffic, received from the customer via the network access point, to generate an integrated outgoing data traffic; receiving, at the router, the first data traffic from the merchant; receiving, at the router via the network access point, the second data traffic from the customer, where the first data traffic is independent of the second data traffic and the second data traffic includes data from the customer for desired content from the Internet; assigning the first data traffic and the second data traffic with a corresponding priority based on whether data traffic is from the merchant or the customer; combining, by the router, both the first and second data traffic to generate the integrated outgoing data traffic that is in compliant with the subscribed data transport capacity; transmitting the integrated outgoing data traffic to the wide area network through the data communication link; receiving, by the router, from the wide area network via the data communication link, incoming data traffic; forwarding, by the router, a third data traffic, if present in the incoming data traffic and intended for the merchant, to the merchant; and forwarding, by the router, a fourth data traffic, is present in the incoming data traffic and intended for the customer, to the customer via the network access point and the fourth data traffic includes the desired content for the customer, wherein the customer and the merchant share the subscribed data transport capacity of the data communication link initially intended for the dedicated use of the merchant.