Patent ID: 9622162
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for disconnecting a roaming wireless device from a wireless network, the method comprising: sending, via an application processing node of a preferred wireless network, a load indicator associated with an access node of the preferred wireless network to the roaming wireless device and, when the load indicator meets a first threshold, instructing the roaming wireless device via an application layer of the roaming wireless device to measure a signal strength indicator of the access node of the preferred wireless network; when the measured signal strength indicator of the access node of the preferred wireless network meets a second threshold, instructing the roaming wireless device via the application processing node of the preferred network to break a first active connection with an access node of a non-preferred wireless network, wherein the roaming wireless device is configured to break the first active connection with the access node of the non-preferred wireless network on receipt of the instruction at the application layer of the roaming wireless device and without permission from the non-preferred wireless network; and provisioning, by the application processing node of the preferred wireless network, a second active connection between the access node of the preferred wireless network and the roaming wireless device.