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Commercial distributed processing by personal computers over the internet

  • US 6,732,141 B2
  • Filed: 11/26/1997
  • Issued: 05/04/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of charging for use of a computer network comprising:

  • measuring an amount of processing power of a computer that is being made available to said computer network;

    measuring an amount of network resources being used by said computer;

    determining a charge for access to said computer network by said computer based on a difference between said measured amount of processing power of said computer being made available to said computer network and said measured amount of network resources being used by said computer;

    coupling the computer via the network to one or more other computers of the computer network using a wireless network connection;

    controlling, based on input received from a user of the computer, one or more processing units of a microprocessor of a microchip of the computer; and

    selectively permitting access through the computer network to one or more of the processing units using a firewall of the microchip, the firewall being configured to permit access through the computer network to execute all or a portion of a shared computer processing operation.

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