Patent ID: 7171215

Claim:
A wireless telecommunication system including: at least one mobile transmitter/receiver, a number of wireless access points, each of which is adapted for communicating with the mobile transmitter/receiver when said transmitter/receiver is situated in a coverage area of said access point, a communication network authorizing communications between said access points, a mobility manager adapted for identifying, based on operating conditions of the access points, a specific access point with which the mobile transmitter/receiver must establish said communication, the mobile transmitter/receiver being equipped with measuring means to take at least one measurement of a quality of communication it could establish with at least one neighboring point of a current access point with which said mobile transmitter/receiver is in the communication, said measuring means adapted for being activated only when the quality of the communication between the mobile transmitter/receiver and the current access point falls under a reference threshold value stored by the mobile transmitter/receiver, said reference threshold value being adjusted according to the following criteria: the nature of the data flow transported by the communication established between the mobile transmitter/receiver and the current access point, the volume of communications in progress in the geographic area covered by said current access point, and a service quality required for the communication; and wherein the wireless telecommunication system also includes a database associated with the mobility manager and intended to contain information relating to the operating conditions of the access points.