Method and computing device for facilitating and establishing network connectivity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016192404-A1
Application number	US-201514635591-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 2, 2015
Priority date	Dec 29, 2014
Publication date	Jun 30, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for facilitating and establishing network connectivity. The network connectivity is established by a first computing device which is capable of identifying network parameters of available network connections and broadcasting the network parameters. The first computing device receives connection request along with connection request parameters from second computing devices to establish connection with one of the available network connections. The first computing device determines which network connection can server the connection request parameters and then facilitates the available network connection to the second computing device. The second computing device establishes the network connections with the first computing device. The second computing device identifies which are first computing devices with their network parameters can serve the connection request parameters of the second computing device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for facilitating network connectivity, the method comprising:
identifying, by a first computing device, one or more network parameters of one or more available network connections; broadcasting, by the first computing device, the one or more network parameters to one or more second computing devices; receiving, by the first computing device, a connection request comprising connection request parameters from at least one of the one or more second computing devices and applications for using the one or more available network connections; determining, by the first computing device, one of the one or more available network connections capable of serving the connection request parameters; and facilitating, by the first computing device, the one of the one or more available network connections to the one of the one or more second computing devices.

2 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the one or more second computing devices evaluates the one or more network parameters for transmitting the connection request to the first computing device.

3 . The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising providing by the first computing device, one or more updated network parameters of the one or more available network connections to the one or more second computing devices subsequent to facilitating or observing changes in the one of the one or more network connections.

4 . The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising transmitting by the first computing device, the connection request to one or more second computing devices to facilitate network connectivity to the one of the one or more second computing devices upon identifying a failure in facilitating the one of the one or more available network connections.

5 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the one or more network parameters are selected from at least one of transmit power of the network connection, Quality of Service (QoS) of the network connection, bandwidth details of the network connection, traffic usage of the network connection, time latency as measured by number of packet hops, cost for per byte of data of the network connection and operational mode of the network connection.

6 . The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the connection request parameters comprises at least one of speed, bandwidth, strength, latency, throughput, jitter, duration/longevity of connection and capacity required by the second computing device for network connectivity.

7 . A first computing device for facilitating network connectivity, comprising:
a processor; a memory, wherein the memory coupled to the processor which are configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory comprising: identify one or more network parameters of one or more available network connections; broadcast the one or more network parameters to one or more second computing devices; receive a connection request comprising connection request parameters from at least one of the one or more second computing devices and applications for using the one or more available network connections; determine one of the one or more available network connections capable of serving the connection request parameters; and facilitate the one of the one or more available network connections to the one of the one or more second computing devices.

8 . The first computing device as claimed in claim 7 receives the connection request from the one of the one or more second computing devices upon evaluation of the one or more network parameters by the one of the one or more second computing devices.

9 . The first computing device as claimed in claim 7 is further configured to provide one or more updated network parameters of the one or more available network connections to the one or more second computing devices subsequent to facilitating the one of the one or more network connections.

10 . The first computing device as claimed in claim 7 is further configured to transmit the connection request to one or more second computing devices to facilitate network connectivity to the one of the one or more second computing devices upon identifying a failure in facilitating the one of the one or more available network connections.

11 . The first computing device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the one or more network parameters are selected from at least one of transmit power of the network connection, Quality of Service (QoS) of the network connection, bandwidth details of the network connection, traffic usage of the network connection, latency as measured by number of packet hops, cost for per byte of data of the network connection and operational mode of the network connection.

12 . The first computing device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the connection request parameters comprises at least one of speed, bandwidth, strength, latency, throughput, jitter, duration/longevity of connection and capacity required by the second computing device for network connectivity.

13 . A method for establishing network connectivity comprising:
identifying, by a second computing device, one or more first computing devices; receiving, by the second computing device, one or more network parameters of one or more available network connections from the one or more first computing devices; determining, by the second computing device, one of the one or more first computing devices capable of serving the network connectivity based on the one or more network parameters; and transmitting, by the second computing device, a connection request comprising connection request parameters to the one of the one or more first computing devices for establishing network connectivity by using one of the one or more available network connections.

14 . The method as claimed in claim 13 further comprising receiving by the second computing device, one or more updated network parameters of the one or more available network connections subsequent to establishing the one of the one or more network connections.

15 . The method as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the one or more network parameters are selected from at least one of transmit power of the network connection, Quality of Service (QoS) of the network connection, latency as measured by number of packet hops, bandwidth details of the network connection, traffic usage of the network connection, cost for per byte of data of the network connection and operational mode of the network connection.

16 . The method as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the connection request parameters comprises at least one of speed, bandwidth, strength, latency, throughput, jitter, duration or longevity of connection and capacity required by the one or more end computing devices for network connectivity.

17 . A second computing device for establishing network connectivity, comprising:
a processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores processor-executable instructions, which, on execution, cause the processor to: identify one or more first computing devices; receive one or more network parameters of one or more available network connections from the one or more first computing devices; determine one of the one or more first computing devices capable of serving the network connectivity based on the one or more network parameters; and transmit a connection request comprising connection request parameters to the one of the one or more first computing devices for establishing network connectivity by using one of the one or more available network connections.

Assignees

• Wipro Ltd

Inventors

• Naidu Santhosh Kumar Mohan

Classifications

• H04W24/10 Primary

  Scheduling measurement reports {; Arrangements for measurement reports} · CPC title

• H04W76/021

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L65/4076

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/002 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W28/18 Primary

  Negotiating wireless communication parameters · CPC title