Patent ID: 9655037
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of identifying an access point (AP) for selection by an access terminal (AT), comprising: receiving, at an AP of one or more APs, a probe request broadcasted by the AT to the one or more APs, wherein the AP and the AT are at different versions of Hotspot specifications; generating, at the AP, load information and Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) values of the probe request received from the AT, wherein the load information at the AP is generated as a utility function of at least one of a number of ATs connected to the AP, traffic on the AP, last association event, latency, or backhaul quality; transmitting, from the AP, a probe response to the AT in response to determining that the AP has a highest value of the utility function among the one or more APs; and transmitting information of the AP to the AT.