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Management of community Wi-Fi network

  • US 10,129,761 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2017
  • Issued: 11/13/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a consumer computing device, comprising:

  • receiving, at the consumer computing device, network coverage data indicative of geographic coverage of a community Wi-Fi network, wherein the community Wi-Fi network comprises sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities, wherein the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network is a union of geographic coverages of the sharer computing devices that share the network bandwidth capacities available to the differing local networks, and wherein the community Wi-Fi network is accessible by the consumer computing device within the union of the geographic coverages of the sharer computing devices using the network bandwidth capacities of the differing local networks shared by the sharer computing devices; and

    displaying visual information on a display screen of the consumer computing device that specifies one or more types of applications available for execution by the consumer computing device via the community Wi-Fi network at a geographic location of the consumer computing device.

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