Patent ID: 9736704
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of providing an overlay wireless network, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor and from a plurality of client devices, location information and wireless network performance parameters of wireless networks available to the plurality of client devices; associating, by the processor, the received location information and the received wireless network performance parameters with a timestamp; aggregating, by the processor, the received wireless network performance parameters based on the received location information and the associated timestamp for each of the wireless networks available to the plurality of client devices; quantizing, by the processor, the wireless network performance parameters to a plurality of geographic areas based on the associated location information and to an at least one time window within each of the plurality of geographic areas based on the associated timestamp, the at least one time window corresponding to at least one period of time during a day; analyzing, by the processor, the quantized wireless network performance parameters to determine a default wireless network within each of the plurality of geographic areas and the at least one time window; building, by the processor, a database searchable based on the plurality of geographic areas and the at least one time window within each of the plurality of geographic areas; and assigning, by the processor, the determined default wireless network within each of the plurality of geographic areas and the at least one time window, wherein the wireless network performance parameters comprise at least one from among a signal strength, call failure statistics, or data performance of the wireless networks.