Patent ID: 8718046
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring a link in a network between a first end-user device and a network, the method comprising: receiving, at a receiving device, performance data collected by the first end-user device, the performance data indicating a communication quality of the link between the first end-user device and the network; determining that a threshold has been reached based on the received performance data, the threshold associated with a decline in quality of the link; transmitting a query to the first end-user device in response to the determined reaching of the threshold, the query requesting from a user of the first end-user device a communication action to perform based on the threshold being reached; receiving the communication action from the first end-user device, the communication action auto-generated by the first end-user device based on previously established preferences, wherein the previously established preferences prioritizes communications of one or more parties in communications with the first end-user device and prioritizes modes of connections with the one or more parties in communications with the first end-user device; determining whether a change is to be made to a communication session between the first end-user device and the network based on the received communication action specified by the user of the first end-user device; responsive to a determination that a change to is to be made to the communication session based on the received communication action, changing the communications session between the first end-user device and the network in accordance with the received communication action, wherein changing the communications session between the first end-user device and the network includes switching the communications session from the first end-user device and the network to the first end-user device and a second network, the second network selected based on the previously established preferences; and responsive to a determination that a change to the communication session is not to be made based on the received communication action, maintaining the communications session between the first end-user device and the network unchanged.