Patent ID: 9565623
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for finding a desired network, the method comprising: broadcasting one or more network-device requests from a wireless device, wherein a network-device request in the one or more network-device requests solicits information from one or more network devices in an environment of the wireless device; receiving one or more network-device responses, wherein each network device response in the one or more network-device responses is associated with a network device in the one or more network devices; selecting a network represented by a selected network-device response in the one or more additional network-device responses, wherein the network is selected based on an ordered arrangement of one or more network identifiers associated with the one or more network-device responses; attempting to associate with the network identified by the selected network-device response; attempting to identify a next additional network based on a next network identifier received in response to the further network-device request, wherein the next network identifier is proximate to the network identifier in the ordered arrangement of the one or more network identifiers; attempting to associate with the next additional network; and broadcasting a further network-device request, when the attempt to associate with the network fails.