摘要 |
A system and method for a plurality of electronic equipment located within a short range communication zone to share bandwidth with each other. In one aspect of the invention, an electronic equipment (a requesting electronic equipment) transmits a request for content over a cellular telephone network (e.g., 3G, GPRS, etc.). In addition, the electronic equipment communicates with other electronic equipment through a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface (e.g., Bluetooth, 802.11, etc.) to determine if the other electronic equipment are available to share bandwidth with the requesting electronic equipment. The other electronic transmit the requested content to the master portable communication device through the WLAN interface.
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