Patent ID: 7443817

Claim:
A method of selecting one or more wireless connections from a plurality of available wireless connections between a mobile terminal and one or more base stations for a service requested by a user of the terminal or base stations, the method comprising: determining one or more connection characteristics for each of said available connections; determining a utility value for each of said available connections; and selecting one or more of said connections based on said determined utility values, wherein each of said connection utility values for said available connections is based on the acceptability for said service of the determined connection characteristics for that connection, and wherein the step of determining the connection utility values comprises determining one or more fuzzy sets having membership functions for each of said connection characteristics for each of said connections, said fuzzy sets representing different levels of acceptability of the corresponding connection for said service; determining a utility value for each connection characteristic for each connection according to corresponding fuzzy sets and depending on the determined connection characteristic for that connection; and adding together said determined connection characteristic utility values for each connection in order to provide the total connection utility value for each said connection.