Patent ID: 8788715
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of media specific drivers individual ones of which being associated with individual, respective network interface cards, individual media specific drivers being configured to obtain network interface status/capabilities information from individual associated network interface cards; a rules engine configured to: an application program interface configured to enable access to the network interface status/capabilities information to one or more applications, one or more provisioning services, one or more group-policy services, or a user interface; a set of media specific modules configured to support automatic network and interface selection, under the influence of the rules engine, relating to particular media types, individual media specific modules being configured to receive, from the rules engine, network interface configuration commands to connect to a particular network or networks; and a media specific module interface configured to enable communication between the media specific modules and the rules engine, the media specific module interface including a normalization module to facilitate communication standardization between the rules engine and different types of the media specific modules.