Combining bandwidth from multiple cellular connections into a single WLAN network

摘要

A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an instruction to aggregate cellular bandwidth of a user device with the cellular bandwidth of one or more participating user devices; appending a shared character string to a network name of the user device based on receiving the instruction; scanning for wireless local area networks (WLANs) after appending the shared character string; identifying one or more WLAN networks with the network names having the shared character string, where the one or more WLAN networks are hosted by the one or more participating user devices; connecting to a particular WLAN network, of the one or more WLAN networks via a WLAN interface of the user device; combining bandwidth from the cellular interface of the user device with the bandwidth from the WLAN interface of the user device; and hosting a WLAN network providing a sum of the bandwidth from the WLAN interface and the cellular interface.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a user device connected to a cellular network via a cellular interface of the user device, an instruction to aggregate cellular bandwidth of the user device with the cellular bandwidth of one or more participating user devices; appending, by the user device, a shared character string to a network name of the user device based on receiving the instruction; scanning, by the user device, for wireless local area networks (WLANs) after appending the shared character string; identifying, by the user device, one or more WLAN networks with the network names having the shared character string, wherein the one or more WLAN networks are hosted by the one or more participating user devices; connecting, by the user device, to a particular WLAN network, of the one or more WLAN networks via a WLAN interface of the user device; combining, by the user device, bandwidth from the cellular interface of the user device with the bandwidth from the WLAN interface of the user device; and hosting, by the user device, a WLAN network providing a sum of the bandwidth from the WLAN interface and the cellular interface; and appending a sequence character string to the network name of the user device after the shared character string based on identifying the one or more WLAN networks.