Patent ID: 9584953
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method evaluating wireless network access connections via near field communications, the method comprising: identifying, by a requesting device, one or more network connections available to the requesting device; requesting, by the requesting device to one or more responding devices using a near field communications connection, information describing the performance of the network connections experienced by the one or more responding devices; receiving, by the requesting device, the information describing the performance of the network connections experienced by the one or more responding devices; identifying, by the requesting device, in dependence upon the information describing the performance of the network connections experienced by the one or more responding device, responding devices of the one or more responding devices that can provide reliable access to a particular network resource; and connecting, by the requesting device, to a preferred network connection in dependence upon the information describing the performance of the network connections experienced by the identified responding devices of the one or more responding devices that can provide reliable access to the particular network resource.