Patent ID: 8280378

Claim:
A system for improving quality-of-experience of using a mobile device, composing: a CPU in the mobile device; a selector manager on the mobile device, said selection manager receiving events relating to radio access networks (RANs) of one or more service providers; a user interface (UI) manager operable to render the quality-of-experience of one or more of the RANs in accordance with a chosen presentation style; a network quality and traffic data server storing information relating the service providers and quality-of-experience ratings; a quality interpreter receiving requests for quality-of-experience metrics from said network quality and traffic data server and parsing and interpreting results of the quality-of-experience metrics to obtain the rendered quality of experience; and a state providing data shared between one or more of the selection manager, the UI manager, the network quality and traffic data server, and the quality interpreter, wherein the chosen presentation style is one of purely quantitative comparison, pre-recorded session, limited interaction-emulated session, live interactive session, and live automatically controlled non-interactive session and user input occurs in accordance with the presentation style.