Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Management of community Wi-Fi network
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Application No.: US14144786Application Date: 2013-12-31
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Publication No.: US09603028B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: David Neil MacDonald , Piyush Goyal , Saumaya Sharma , Shai Guday , Thomas Werner Kuehnel , Vikas Singh , Triptpal Singh Lamba , Brent Edward Ford , Jonathan Hathaway
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Medley, Behrens & Lewis, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04W16/18 ; H04W4/08 ; H04W48/16 ; H04L12/28 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W24/04 ; H04L12/24 ; H04W24/08 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s).
Public/Granted literature
- US20150188800A1 MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY WI-FI NETWORK Public/Granted day:2015-07-02
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