Patent ID: 8001223

Claim:
A method for establishing communication between a wireless station and a network, the method comprising: establishing a plurality of network profiles in a profile database of the wireless station comprising displaying a dialog box to a user, wherein the plurality of network profiles in the profile database is prioritized, wherein the user manually enters the network profiles into the profile database using the dialog box, wherein user entered data available to be entered by the user comprises an SSID, a mode of operation selected from either ad hoc or infrastructure, whether traffic should be scrambled for privacy, encapsulation or translation to be used to wrap the header, IP address, subnet mask, and DNS setting; establishing a first link using a network profile of the network profiles; periodically examining the first link for a need to establish a new second link; determining that link quality of the first link indicates that the second link is needed; and establishing the second link comprising: selecting another network profile of the network profiles without requiring the user to manually select the another network, profile; and reconfiguring parameters automatically in accordance with the another network profile.