Patent ID: 9338740
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for selecting a wireless access point, the apparatus comprising: a data storage; and a processor communicatively connected to the data storage, the processor being configured to: determine a plurality of wireless access points available to the apparatus; determine a plurality of signal strengths, the plurality of signal strengths comprising signal strengths between the apparatus and each of the plurality of available wireless access points; determine a plurality of historical performance metrics associated with at least two of the plurality of available wireless access points; select the wireless access point from the plurality of wireless access points based on the plurality of historical performance metrics and the plurality of signal strengths; associate the apparatus with the selected wireless access point; measure a one-hop performance metric between the apparatus and the selected wireless access point; measure an end-to-end performance metric between the apparatus and a measurement server; and report the one-hop performance metric and the end-to-end performance metric to a performance database; wherein the plurality of historical performance metrics comprise metrics based on at least one of: