Patent ID: 8050707

Claim:
A method of selecting a performance setting for one or more wireless technologies, comprising: providing a plurality of wireless technology interfaces, wherein the wireless technology interfaces correspond to differing wireless protocols, the plurality of wireless technology interfaces comprising at least one of a WiFi interface, 802.11 based interface, Bluetooth interface, ultra-wide band interface, cellular interface, wide area network interface, Mobile WiMax interface, DVB-H interface, RFID interface, GPS interface or other wireless protocol interface; providing a plurality of data applications, each of the wireless technology interfaces being associated with multiple of the data applications, providing, for each data application, a grouping of data application performance settings corresponding to a performance of each of the wireless technology interfaces for the corresponding data application, wherein the groupings of performance settings represent performance characteristics of the wireless technology interfaces for a particular data application; simultaneously presenting a visual representation of a relative performance of the plurality of wireless technology interfaces by displaying the groupings of performance settings representing performance characteristics for each of the data applications; and allowing a selection of at least one of the groupings of performance settings.