Patent ID: 7602748

Claim:
A method for conducting a communications session involving a communication terminal device accessing a network, the communication terminal device being associated with one or more user-specified thresholds, the method comprising: at the communication terminal device, conducting communications corresponding to the communications session via a first mode of access; determining, at the communication terminal device, that a second mode of access is available to be used for the communications corresponding to the communications session; comparing one or more attributes associated with the first mode of access to one or more attributes associated with the second mode of access to obtain one or more differences; comparing the one or more differences to the one or more user-specified thresholds; from the communication terminal device, sending an indication to the network that the second mode of access is to be used based on a result of the comparing the one or more differences to the one or more user-specified thresholds; and at the communication terminal device, conducting subsequent communications corresponding to the communications session using the second mode of access.