Patent ID: 8885565

Claim:
A local computing device for reducing a connection time to a wireless access point, the local computing device comprising: a wireless connection logging hardware module to record in a log stored on the local computing device, wireless connection information for a plurality of wireless connections with one or more wireless access points, the log comprising historical wireless connection information and recent wireless connection information; a wireless connection management hardware module to (i) retrieve the historical connection information stored on the local computing device, (ii) transmit the retrieved historical connection information over a network to a remote analysis server, and (iii) receive parameters calculated as a function of the historical connection information from the remote analysis server; a prediction hardware module to generate an ordered list from the one or more wireless access points to connect to at a desired time as a function of the received parameters and the recent wireless connection information, the recent wireless connection information comprising wireless connection information not yet used in calculation of the parameters, wherein the wireless connection management hardware module is further to select a first wireless access point from the ordered list with which to attempt a connection; and a wireless communication hardware module to cause a probe frame to be sent to the selected first wireless access point.