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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Tencent America Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rohit Abhishek, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul Spencer Dawkins, Garland, TX (US);
Arianne Hinds, Palo Alto, CA (US);
TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for receiving, by a plurality of user devices within a Local Area Network (LAN), a request to create a local cloud within the LAN, selecting, by one of the plurality of user devices, a master device from among the plurality of user devices, and one or more devices from among the plurality of user devices based on a resource availability, requesting, by the master device, each of the one or more devices to share resources of the device for the local cloud, and configuring, by the master device, the one or more devices as the local cloud. The master device receives a service request for a service to be performed by the local cloud, and distributes a plurality of tasks corresponding to the service to the one or more devices configured as the local cloud according to the resource availability of the one or more devices.