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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2015
Applicants:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, IE;

Inventors:

Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;

Paul B. French, Cork, IE;

James P. Galvin, Jr., Georgetown, KY (US);

David W. Malone, Dublin, IE;

Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Ballsbridge, IE;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/783 (2013.01); G06F 9/00 (2013.01); G06F 11/3024 (2013.01); G06F 11/3037 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 12/1435 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 41/5019 (2013.01); H04L 41/5029 (2013.01); H04L 43/0888 (2013.01);
Abstract

An indicator can be received from a client device. The indicator can indicate an agreement by a user of the client device to share device resources of the client device with an entity distinct from the client device and distinct from the user of the client device. Responsive to receiving from the client device the indicator indicating the agreement of the user of the of the client device to share the device resources of the client device with the entity, at least one network resource provided to the client device can be increased.


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