Abstract: A fog network gateway includes at least one wireless communication interface, at least one cellular communication interface, and at least one wireline communication interface. The fog network gateway further includes connectivity logic configured to provide connection between a remote device and at least one local device via at least one of the wireless, cellular, and wireline communication interfaces, fog networking logic configured to form a fog network with the at least one local device for transmitting data thereto, and bandwidth aggregation logic configured to aggregate available bandwidth from at least two of the wireless, cellular, and wireline communication interfaces to ensure adequate bandwidth for data transmission between the remote device and the at least one local device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 6, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 7, 2020
Assignee:
Smartiply, Inc.
Inventors:
Arsalan A. Gilani, Christopher Coble, Raghuram Kaushik Pillalamarri, Shunge Li, William J. Heilig, Junshan Zhang, Mung Chiang