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Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 16, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Marco Pistoia, Amawalk, NY (US);

Gegi Thomas, Piermont, NY (US);

Omer Tripp, Bronx, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/60 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 9/5061 (2013.01); H04W 4/60 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of collaboratively executing a task using first to N-th mobile devices in an ad-hoc network includes determining collaborative mobile devices out of the second to N-th mobile devices, receiving information corresponding to the collaborative mobile devices, dividing the task into first to M-th sub tasks, assigning each of the first to M-th sub tasks to at least one of the collaborative mobile devices, requesting executions of the first to M-th sub tasks to the collaborative mobile devices, and receiving execution results of the first to M-th sub tasks from the collaborative mobile devices. M and N are integers greater than one.


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