Wireless Bandwidth Pooling via Ad-Hoc Network
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bandwidth access limitations prohibit optimal performance of newer services like video downloading on wireless devices, as they often lack sufficient broadband data access.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a bandwidth management method that pools data access channels of multiple wireless devices via an ad-hoc network, such as Wi-Fi, to collectively increase available bandwidth for downloading content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple wireless devices are connected to form an ad-hoc network for bandwidth pooling, then the available bandwidth for downloading content is increased, but the device complexity and network configuration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the bandwidth resources of multiple wireless devices by forming an ad-hoc network, where devices pool their individual bandwidth to create a collective resource. This merging approach directly increases the total available bandwidth for content downloading while managing the complexity through automated network formation protocols.
2Productivity
If current individual device bandwidth is used, then the device operation is simple, but the downloading performance of newer services like video is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges bandwidth resources from multiple devices to achieve the downloading performance required for newer services. By combining individual device bandwidths into a pooled resource, the system enables high-bandwidth activities like video downloading that would be impossible with single-device limitations.
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AI summary
Systems, methods and computer products for pooling of wireless collection bandwidth. Exemplary embodiments include a bandwidth management method, in a wireless device, the method, including querying for additional wireless devices within a communication range of the wireless device, the wireless device and additional wireless devices being in communication with a network having downloadable content, initiating communication between the wireless device and the additional wireless devices, establishing an ad-hoc network among the combination of the wireless device and the additional devices, establishing communication between the combined wireless device and additional devices as the ad-hoc network, and the network having the downloadable content and requesting the downloadable content from the network to the wireless device, wherein the downloadable content is transferred over a bandwidth collectively pooled among individual bandwidths of the wireless device and the additional wireless devices.