Wireless internet access with enhanced bandwidth capabilities
OwnerRobert C. Yeninventor
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Abstract
Techniques for efficiently and economically providing data transfer through wireless data networks. These techniques are particularly suitable for Internet data transfers. In one aspect, mobile devices are able to be allocated additional wireless channels to obtain increased data transfer capabilities. The additional wireless channels can be used for unicast, multicast or broadcast of data. These techniques provide additional wireless bandwidth to mobile devices and allows control over allocation of the additional wireless bandwidth.
Claims18
A system for transmitting data from servers through a wireless data network to wireless clients, each of the wireless clients having an assigned wireless data channel allocated thereto, said system comprising:
- a wireless Internet Service Provider coupled to the wireless data network and a wired data network, the wireless data network utilizing a plurality of base stations located at geographically distinct areas;
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- a plurality of banks of additional wireless devices, each of the additional wireless devices being capable of providing at least one additional wireless data channel to said wireless Internet Service Provider via the wireless data network,
- wherein, when one or more of the wireless clients have a need for greater wireless bandwidth, one or more of the additional wireless data channels from one or more of the additional wireless devices in one or more of the banks are able to be temporarily allocated to the one or more of the wireless clients.
A system for transmitting data from servers through a wireless data network to wireless clients, each of the wireless clients having an assigned wireless data channel allocated thereto, said system comprising:
- a wireless channel manager coupled to the wireless data network and a wired data network, the wireless data network utilizing a plurality of base stations located at geographically distinct areas;
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- a plurality of banks of additional wireless devices, each of the additional wireless devices being capable of providing at least one additional wireless data channel to said wireless channel manager via the wireless data network,
- wherein, when one or more of the wireless clients have a need for greater wireless bandwidth, one or more of the additional wireless data channels from one or more of the additional wireless devices in one or more of the banks are able to be temporarily allocated to the one or more of the wireless clients,
- wherein each of the one or more additional wireless data channels are used to transmit a different portion of a resource to the one or more of the wireless clients,
- wherein data for a first part of a resource is transmitted from at least one of the servers to the at least one of the wireless clients using a first of the at least one of the additional wireless data channels, and
- wherein data for a second part of the resource is transmitted from at least one of the servers to the at least one of the wireless clients using a second of the at least one of the additional wireless data channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.