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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2013
David Neil Macdonald, Seattle, WA (US);
Piyush Goyal, Redmond, WA (US);
Saumaya Sharma, Seattle, WA (US);
Shai Guday, Redmond, WA (US);
Thomas Werner Kuehnel, Seattle, WA (US);
Darya Mazandarany, Kirkland, WA (US);
Triptpal Singh Lamba, Bothell, WA (US);
Brent Edward Ford, Sammamish, WA (US);
David Neil MacDonald, Seattle, WA (US);
Piyush Goyal, Redmond, WA (US);
Saumaya Sharma, Seattle, WA (US);
Shai Guday, Redmond, WA (US);
Thomas Werner Kuehnel, Seattle, WA (US);
Darya Mazandarany, Kirkland, WA (US);
Triptpal Singh Lamba, Bothell, WA (US);
Brent Edward Ford, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies described herein pertain to configuring an access point in a local network for operation in a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network includes access points in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with member computing devices of the community Wi-Fi network. A request to join the access point to the community Wi-Fi network is transmitted from the access point to a community aggregation system. Responsive to the request, the community aggregation system transmits a firmware update to the access point. The access point installs the firmware update in memory of the access point. Moreover, responsive to installation of the firmware update, the access point can share network bandwidth capacity with the member computing devices of the community Wi-Fi network. Further, the community aggregation system supports transparent handoffs between access points in to the community Wi-Fi network.