A Way Of Configuring A Device For Concealed Connection Merging Through Coordinated And Dynamic Virtual Proxy Allocation

The present invention describes a way of configuring an existing, conventional network-enabled device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop, mobile WiFi hotspot, etc.) by modifying and augmenting its designs, schematics, hardware and/or software, and by integrating it into a system, resulting in a corresponding augmented device 100 capable of demand-driven, flexible topology and intelligently-enabled communication between said resulting augmented device 100 and at least one conventional network-enabled application server 103 over multiple segments of the Internet concurrently. The augmented device 100 is configured so as to possess a processing unit 126, a memory unit 128, a storage unit 129, as well as two or more mobile broadband access devices 101. Additionally, the augmented device 100 is configured to coexist and cooperate with the other components of the system comprising other augmented devices 100, a dynamic pool of relay machines 102 that act as proxies between one or more augmented devices 100 and one or more arbitrary network-enabled application servers 103, as well as a coordination machine 104 that aggregates status and routing information relevant to the augmented devices 100 and relay machines 102, and dynamically adjusts the number, location and/or performance specifications of running relay machines 102. Finally, the augmented device 100 is configured to proxy data it exchanges with said at least one application server 103 through one of the relay machines 102 using a connection-merging protocol which is also known to said relay machines 102.

The present invention describes a way of configuring an existing, conventional network-enabled device (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop, mobile WiFi hotspot, etc.) by modifying and augmenting its designs, schematics, hardware and/or software, and by integrating it into a system, resulting in a corresponding augmented device 100 capable of demand-driven, flexible topology and intelligently-enabled communication between said resulting augmented device 100 and at least one conventional network-enabled application server 103 over multiple segments of the Internet concurrently. The augmented device 100 is configured so as to possess a processing unit 126, a memory unit 128, a storage unit 129, as well as two or more mobile broadband access devices 101. Additionally, the augmented device 100 is configured to coexist and cooperate with the other components of the system comprising other augmented devices 100, a dynamic pool of relay machines 102 that act as proxies between one or more augmented devices 100 and one or more arbitrary network-enabled application servers 103, as well as a coordination machine 104 that aggregates status and routing information relevant to the augmented devices 100 and relay machines 102, and dynamically adjusts the number, location and/or performance specifications of running relay machines 102. Finally, the augmented device 100 is configured to proxy data it exchanges with said at least one application server 103 through one of the relay machines 102 using a connection-merging protocol which is also known to said relay machines 102.