Patent ID: 8627468

Claim:
A method, comprising: detecting, by a computing device, a network condition corresponding to a network; evaluating, by the computing device, the network condition to identify one or more types of network performance information corresponding to the network condition; prioritizing, by the computing device, the one or more types of network performance information corresponding to the network condition; communicating, by the computing device, priority information to a network device, where the priority information comprises information identifying the one or more types of network performance information and priority information associated with the one or more types of network performance information; and receiving, by the computing device, network performance information corresponding to at least one of the one or more types of network performance information in response to communicating the priority information to the network device, wherein prioritizing the one or more types of network performance information comprises: creating a list of the one or more types of network performance information, and assigning a priority value to each of the one or more types of network performance information, wherein the priority value assigned to each of the one or more types of network performance information corresponds to a degree of relevance regarding the network condition.