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US 9,867,220 B2Granted
Tethering parameters for a tethering connection
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAmer A. Hassan, Paul William Alexander Mitchell, Paul W. Garnett, Shadi Mahassel, Pascal F. Menezes
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Abstract
Techniques for tethering parameters for a tethering connection are described. Implementations, for example, enable a tethered connection between a tethered device and a host device to be provisioned in various ways.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations including:
- receiving at a host device a tethering request from a requesting device to establish a tethered connection to the host device;
- generating a tethering query that includes attributes of the requesting device and a location of the host device;
- communicating the tethering query to a tethering service;
- and
- receiving a tethering response that includes tethering parameters to be applied to a tethered connection with the requesting device, and identifiers for one or more wireless channels for use by the host device to communicate wireless data for the requesting device.
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One or more hardware computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a tethering query that includes a location of a host device and one or more attributes of a requesting device that requests to tether to the host device;
- selecting, based on the location of the host device and the one or more attributes of the requesting device, at least one wireless channel to assign to the host device for wireless data communication;
- generating a tethering response that identifies the at least one wireless channel and one or more tethering parameters to be applied to a tethered connection between the requesting device and the host device;
- and
- communicating the tethering response for receipt by the host device.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- communicating a tethering query to a tethering service that includes attributes of a requesting device that requests to tether to a host device, and a location of the host device;
- receiving a tethering response that includes tethering parameters to be applied to a tethered connection with the requesting device, and one or more identifiers for one or more wireless channels for use by the host device to communicate wireless data for the requesting device;
- and
- applying the tethering parameters to a tethered connection with the requesting device including utilizing by the host device the one or more wireless channels to communicate wireless data for the requesting device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.