Patent ID: 8625538

Claim:
A method for association of a mobile terminal with an access point (AP), comprising: determining a set of available APs; calculating an extent of prior uninterrupted reception looking backwards from a point in time when the set is determined for each of the available APs over a recent history; and selecting an AP from among the set of available APs that has a greatest extent of prior uninterrupted reception, looking backwards from the point in time when the set is determined, and is different from a currently associated AP associating the mobile terminal with the selected AP, to the extent that an AP that is different from the currently associated AP is among the set of available APs, wherein the extent of uninterrupted reception, looking backwards from the point in time when the set is determined, is calculated for each of the available APs by determining how long the mobile terminal has remained within the coverage area of each of the APs given a known or estimated trajectory of the mobile terminal.