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US 2014/0181172 A1Published application
Offloading tethering-related communication processing
OwnerBrent J. Elliottinventor
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This disclosure is directed to offloading tethering-related communication processing. In general, a communication processor in an intermediary device may be responsible for handling communication between tethered devices and a wide area network (WAN) like the Internet. In offloading responsibility for managing tethered devices to the communication processor, other processing resources (e.g., an applications processor) in the intermediary device may be both uninvolved and potentially totally isolated from the tethering, allowing the intermediary device to conserve power/processing resources, maintain better security, etc. An intermediary device may comprise, for example, a communication module to communicate with at least one other device and a WAN, a communication processor to control how information may be conveyed between the at least one other device and the WAN and an application processor, separate from the communication processor, to execute at least one application in the device.
A device, comprising:
A method, comprising:
At least one machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon, individually or in combination, instructions that when executed by one or more processors result in the following operations comprising:
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