Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan Hathaway

Thomas W Kuehnel

Shai Guday

David Neil MacDonald

Piyush Goyal

Triptpal Singh Lamba

Saumaya Sharma

Brent Edward Ford

Vikas Singh

David Neil Macdonald

Thomas Werner Kuehnel

Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s).

Management of community Wi-Fi network

Growing community of inventors

Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Jonathan Hathaway