Patent ID: 7133669
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless device for seamless roaming among one or more wireless wide area networks (WWANs) and one or more wireless local area networks (WLANs), the wireless device comprising: a user interface enabling a user to interact with the wireless device; one or more network interfaces coupled to the wireless device and to the one or more WWANs and the one or more WLANs; an operating system running on the wireless device; a connectivity application running on top of the operating system and including: a driver layer functioning on top of the operating system and coupled to the one or more network interface components and to the one or more network interfaces wherein the core component comprises an active connection selection subcomponent and a rules engine subcomponent, wherein: the active connection selection subcomponent implements logic to: the rules engine subcomponent implements logic to: