Patent ID: 8923265

Claim:
A method for providing on-demand wireless services, the method comprising: providing a requested service to a wireless access device via a first virtual wireless base station presence at a first wireless base station; detecting a degradation in signal quality between the wireless access device and the first wireless base station; determining that the wireless access device is preparing to roam from a coverage area of the first wireless base station when the degradation in signal quality meets a predetermined threshold; Identifying a second wireless base station that provides better signal quality than the degraded signal quality from the first wireless base station; determining whether the wireless access device at the second wireless base station is authenticated, wherein authentication requirements are reduced based on information provided to the second wireless base station from the first wireless base station; initiating a second virtual wireless base station presence at the second wireless base station to provide the requested service to the wireless access device; determining whether there are any authenticated wireless access devices in a coverage area of the second wireless base station within a set period of time; terminating the second virtual wireless base station presence based on the determination that there are no authenticated wireless access devices in the coverage area of the second wireless base station within the set period of time.