Patent ID: 7602782

Claim:
A wireless device for communicating with a destination device, the communicating including transmitting and receiving at least one of a voice signal and a data signal over a plurality of wireless communications media that are autonomous and differ at a data link layer, the wireless device comprising: an application executable to communicate the at least on of a voice signal and a data signal to the destination device; a plurality of communication interfaces configured to enable communicating over the plurality of wireless communications media; a network availability determiner section configured to determine at least one metric; a user configuration processor configured to receive at least one parameter; a decider section configured to generate a deciding signal based on the at least one metric and the at least one parameter; a core section configured to generate a selecting signal based on the deciding signal; a selector section configured to select one of the plurality of communication interfaces based on the selecting signal, the selected one of the plurality of communication interfaces communicating over one of the plurality of wireless communications media, the selector section being further configured to select another one of the plurality of communication interfaces transparently to said application for communication over another one of the plurality of wireless communications media while the selected one of the plurality of communication interfaces communicates over the one of the plurality of wireless communications media.