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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:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 15, 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 72/00 (2009.01); 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 role of sharing broker can be activated on a first mobile device, the role of sharing broker brokering sharing of network resources of at least a first network among a plurality of other mobile devices. Data usage by the first mobile device on at least the first network can be monitored. Responsive to the data usage by the first mobile device on at least the first network exceeding a threshold value, an amount of data usage on at least the first network being shared by the first mobile device among the plurality of other mobile devices can be adjusted.


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