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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
May. 07, 2012
Douglas S. Moeller, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Ronald W. Pashby, San Francisco, CA (US);
Douglas S. Moeller, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Ronald W. Pashby, San Francisco, CA (US);
Autonet Mobile, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a mobile router network in one embodiment comprises: providing a plurality of wireless mobile routers, each of the mobile routers comprises a wireless wide area network interface to access a cellular network, and each mobile router is operable to upload data and to download data via the cellular network; providing at least one server coupleable to the plurality of wireless mobile routers via the cellular network; operating each mobile router to determine, on an ongoing basis during a predetermined period, its corresponding accumulated quantity of downloaded data; and operating each mobile router to control its download data rate based on its corresponding the accumulated quantity of downloaded data.