Patent ID: 8903377
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: B29D,E05D,E05Y,G02B,G06F,G06G,G06T,G09G,H04B,H04M,H04N,H04W,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication device, comprising: a display to provide graphical information to a user; a cellular telephony hardware module to access at least one cellular network; a wireless communication hardware module to access at least one non-cellular network; an antenna configured to be in wireless communication with a plurality of compatible and currently accessible communication networks, the plurality of compatible and currently accessible communication networks comprising the at least one cellular network and the at least one non-cellular network; a power source and power control hardware module configured to provide power to the wireless communication device; a mobile network analyzer configured to determine network information about the at least one cellular network and the at least one non-cellular network; a mobile network selector to determine, based on the network information supplied by the mobile network analyzer whether a currently accessed communication network is sufficiently capable to perform the wireless communication device activity already initiated or to be initiated by the user, wherein the at least one non-cellular network is defined by one of the following protocols: Wimax, WiFi, and Bluetooth and wherein the at least one cellular network is defined by at least one of the following radio data communication protocols: HIPERMAN, iBurst, EDGE Evolution, EV-DO, Flash-OFDM, 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G, pre-4G, 4G, 5G, UMTS W-CDMA, and UMTS-TDD; and a plurality of a gesture capture area, at least one user configurable area, a task management hardware module, an application manager, and an application store, wherein the display is a touch screen display, wherein the mobile network selector is configured, when the currently accessed communication network is not sufficiently capable, to select the compatible and currently accessible communication network from among the plurality of compatible and currently accessible communication networks, wherein the selection is based on a network characteristic other than network speed, wherein the network characteristic is at least one of a current or anticipated user requirement, network reliability, network performance, network bandwidth, network throughput, and data transmission cost, and wherein the mobile network selector compares network state information for each of the compatible and currently accessible wireless communication networks with at least one data transmission resource requirement for the wireless communication device activity, based on predetermined rules, to determines whether one or more of the compatible and currently accessible wireless communication networks satisfy the at least one data transmission resource requirement.