Patent ID: 8441950

Claim:
A method of controlling access to a network, the method comprising: initiating connection of a user-network to the network, the user-network comprising more than one access system; determining access systems available to the user-network for accessing the network; determining a priority value of each of the available access systems; determining a priority access system from the available access systems for accessing the network and enabling the priority access system; determining an amount of interference between further of the available access systems and the priority access system using the results of a matrix comprising: AS1 AS2 AS3 AS4 AS1 — Int(AS2 => AS1) Int(AS3 => Int(AS4 => AS1) AS1) AS2 Int(AS1 => — Int(AS3 => Int(AS4 => AS2) AS2) AS2) AS3 Int(AS1 => Int(AS2 => AS3) — Int(AS4 => AS3) AS3) AS4 Int(AS1 => Int(AS2 => AS4) Int(AS3 => — AS4) AS4) where the relationship Int(ASx=>ASy) denotes the amount of interference caused by using ASx simultaneously during the usage of ASy, where AS, which represents an access system, is an acronym for Access System and x and y are numbers corresponding to individual access systems available to the user-network; and responsive to the determined amount of interference, enabling the further access system having the highest priority value.