Patent ID: 7990923

Claim:
A method for a wireless terminal to select a base station to communicate with using wireless communications from among a plurality of base stations, the wireless terminal being in service ranges of the plurality of base stations, the method comprising: receiving, by the wireless terminal, broadcast information transmitted from each of the plurality of base stations; acquiring, by the wireless terminal, for each of the plurality of base stations, information about first received power, the first received power representing a strength of power when the wireless terminal receives the broadcast information; acquiring, by the wireless terminal, information about a first antenna included in the broadcast information, the first antenna being an antenna used in each of the plurality of base stations for the wireless communications after connection is established; and selecting, by the wireless terminal, one base station from among the plurality of base stations as the base station to communicate with based on the acquired information about the first received power and the acquired information about the first antenna, said one base station having a communication channel of highest quality in the wireless communications.