APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACCESSING A REMOTE NETWORK CONCURRENTLY WITH A TETHERED DEVICE ACCESSING THE REMOTE NETWORK

    公开(公告)号:US20180376521A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US15998980

    申请日:2018-08-20

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Inventor: Cahya Masputra

    Abstract: Embodiments include an apparatus and method for a handheld device that accesses a remote network, and also provides a tethered device with access to the same remote network. The handheld device may support multiple data flows between the tethering machine and the remote network, while the handheld device is capable of being used by a user to “surf” or otherwise access the same remote network. For example, if the remote network is the Internet and the handheld device is a “smart phone”, a user of the smart phone can access the Internet concurrently while one or more applications on the tethering machine also accesses the Internet. Moreover, the smart phone may concurrently support other networked services that the smart phone is designed to provide such as voicemail services, messaging services, and telephony (cell phone) services.

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