Invention Grant
- Patent Title: On-demand personal hotspot
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Application No.: US16438977Application Date: 2019-06-12
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Publication No.: US11178545B2Publication Date: 2021-11-16
- Inventor: Hamid Majdabadi , Su Liu , Iman Johari , Tiberiu Suto
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts, LLP
- Agent Maeve Carpenter
- Main IPC: H04W12/68
- IPC: H04W12/68 ; H04W12/06 ; H04W60/00 ; H04W12/08 ; H04W76/11

Abstract:
A method, system and computer program product includes receiving registration information by a plurality of offering participants, verifying that the secure wireless internet connections of each of the plurality of offering participants is acceptable, providing an interface to a receiving participant device, the interface configured to allow a receiving participant to view each of the secure wireless internet connections and make a selection, receiving the selection by the receiving participant to join a selected one of the secure wireless internet connections, authenticating connection initialization for the receiving participant to join the selected one of the secure wireless internet connections, and facilitating a secure access connection by the receiving participant to the selected one of the secure wireless internet connections. The computer system is a third party system controlled by a party other than any of the plurality of offering participants and the receiving participant.
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