Patent ID: 8693434
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a mobile communication device, one or more user preferences that include information identifying a plurality of thresholds relating to switching between modes of access, conducting, by the mobile communication device, a communications session via a first mode of access; detecting, by the mobile communication device, that a second mode of access is available; determining, by the mobile communication device, that the second mode of access has been available for a period of time that meets the first threshold relating to the time interval; comparing differences between the first mode of access and the second mode of access to the second threshold relating to the differences between the modes of access; determining, by the mobile communication device, that the communications session should be switched from the first mode of access to the second mode of access based on; switching, upon determining that the communications session should be switched, the communications session from the first mode of access to the second mode of access; and conducting, by the mobile communication device, the communications session via the second mode of access upon switching the communications session from the first mode of access to the second mode of access.