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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. 24, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 05, 2018
Applicants:

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

University College Dublin, Belfield, IE;

Inventors:

Jonathan Dunne, Dungarvan, IE;

Paul B. French, Cork, IE;

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

Yi Han, Blackrock, IE;

Patrick J. O'Sullivan, Ballsbridge, IE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01); H04W 72/06 (2009.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/048 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/1074 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 24/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04W 92/18 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A first mobile device determines a second mobile device losing connectivity to a second network or a communication link between the second mobile device and the second network degrading below a threshold value, the second mobile device assigned a role of sharing broker that brokers sharing of network resources of at least a first network among a plurality of other mobile devices via the second network, the first mobile device and the plurality of other mobile devices participating in a sharing group. Responsive to the determination, the role of sharing broker is activated on the first mobile device.


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