Patent ID: 9750064
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method to connect a mobile device to a network, the method comprising: determining whether there is an authenticated Wi-Fi access point that is accessible to the mobile device through a local wireless communication protocol; when determined that there is the authenticated Wi-Fi access point that is accessible to the mobile device through the local wireless communication protocol, instructing the mobile device to connect to a Wi-Fi network provided by the authenticated Wi-Fi access point; when determined that there is no authenticated Wi-Fi access point that is accessible to the mobile device through the local wireless communication protocol, determining whether there is a non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value and that is accessible to the mobile device through a local wireless communication protocol; when determined that there is the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value and that is accessible to the mobile device through the local wireless communication protocol, instructing the mobile device to connect to a Wi-Fi network provided by the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value; and instructing the mobile device to disable uplink transmission from the mobile device to the authenticated Wi-Fi access point or the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point.