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US 2014/0207677 A1Published application
Portable bandwidth
AssigneeKarma Mobility Inc.
InventorsSteven Andrew van Wel, Stefan Borsje, Robert Gaal
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for a user to share bandwidth among multiple devices, and for a sharing device to share available bandwidth among different users. The bandwidth sharing platform can leverage social network techniques to facilitate user access, and sharing is incentivized by rewarding various types of sharing activity.
Claims20
A method for sharing bandwidth comprising:
- providing a device that supports data connectivity to one or more clients;
- and
- when one of the clients connects to the device for a first time to obtain connectivity to a data network through the device, crediting an account of an owner of the device with an additional data usage allocation for use by the owner.
A computer program product for sharing bandwidth embodied in a computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computing devices, performs the steps of:
- providing a device that supports data connectivity to one or more clients;
- and
- when one of the clients connects to the device for a first time to obtain connectivity to a data network through the device, crediting an account of an owner of the device with an additional data usage allocation for use by the owner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.