METHODS AND DEVICES FOR SHARING A SERVICE AMONG MULTIPLE DEVICES

摘要

Methods and devices for sharing services among multiple devices are provided. The methods and devices may involve multiple devices and a service-sharing platform that allows multiple different services available on the multiple devices to be shared among the multiple devices. One device may lack a service and request that service from one or more other devices that have the service. The methods and devices may further involve an iptables-based routing technique to connect or transmit data from one device to one or more other devices. The technique may comprise marking communications of one device based on a marking feature of iptables and creating a rule for the marked communications. The rule may instruct the marked communications to look up a routing table and to be routed to a default route of the routing table.

主权项

1. A method for sharing a service among multiple devices comprising:
finding, by a first device, the service available from a second device, wherein the service is an Internet service; requesting, by the first device, to share access to the Internet service; and receiving registration information of the second device from a platform and wherein the first device is connected with the second device to establish an Internet connection for the first device, the Internet connection for the first device is established by relaying packets from the first device to the second device and transmitting the relayed packets from the second device to Internet through network address translation or reverse network address translation.