Allocating a pool of shared bandwidth

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8971282-B2
Application number	US-201414263402-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2014
Priority date	Apr 18, 2013
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for allocating a pool of shared Internet bandwidth. One of the methods includes providing a first communications channel having a first bandwidth, the first bandwidth being shared by a first group of first users, providing a second communications channel having a second bandwidth different than the first bandwidth, the second bandwidth being shared by a second group of second users, detecting that at least one first data connection for a particular first user in the first group has satisfied a first predetermined condition, and moving, based on the detecting, the at least one first data connection for the particular first user from the first communications channel to the second communications channel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method performed by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising:
providing, by the data processing apparatus, a first communications channel having a first bandwidth, the first bandwidth being shared by only a first group of user devices each operated by a respective user from a first group of first users and having one or more first data connections in the first communications channel;
providing, by the data processing apparatus, a second communi…

Assignees

• Iboss Inc

Inventors

• Martini Paul Michael

Classifications

• H04L47/12

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/745

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/76 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/808 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L47/828

  Electricity · mapped topic