Patent ID: 9596632
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A mobile node, comprising: means for automatically capturing and interpreting roaming meta-data advertised by one or more static access-points in the vicinity of the mobile node; means for automatically reconfiguring the mobile node, in response to predetermined criteria and based on an ordered list communicated via the roaming meta-data, to associate with a best next static access-point of the static access-points, the best next static access-point being a next access-point in the ordered list; means for automatically evaluating whether signal strength observed for a currently associated one of the static access-points is within a predetermined signal strength range communicated via the roaming meta-data; wherein the mobile node and the static access-points are respective nodes of a wireless mesh network; and wherein the predetermined criteria is a function of at least that the observed signal strength exceeds the predetermined signal strength range.