Patent ID: 9661515
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method of managing heterogeneous wireless devices in three or more different types of networks, each type of network using a different type of radio access technology, comprising: receiving measurement data from a plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices via a control interface, wherein a heterogeneous wireless device provides connections to client devices via one or more of the three or more radio access technologies; searching, using a processor, for optimized adjustments to one or more parameters associated with one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices based at least in part on a set of network optimization goals and the measurement data received from the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices; transmitting at least some of the optimized adjustments of the one or more parameters to the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices using the control interface; determining that one or more client devices should be handed off from one type of network using a first type of radio access technology to another type of network using a second type of radio access technology, wherein the determination is based at least in part on the measurement data received from the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices; sending an indication to one of the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices regarding the handoff determination; selectively sending a subset of the measurement data received from the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices to one of the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices for handoff determination; and enabling the one of the plurality of heterogeneous wireless devices to make a determination that one or more client devices should be handed off from one type of network using a first type of radio access technology to another type of network using a second type of radio access technology, and wherein the determination is based at least in part on the subset of the measurement data.