Patent ID: 8917620

Claim:
A method carried out by a first wireless communication device (WCD), the first WCD having a first configuration including a plurality of modules, the method comprising: receiving into the first WCD from a second WCD, via a direct wireless link between the first WCD and the second WCD, data indicating a second configuration of the second WCD; based on the data indicating the second configuration, the first WCD making a determination as to whether the second configuration is at least threshold similar to the first configuration, wherein making the determination that the second configuration is at least threshold similar to the first configuration comprises determining that the second configuration includes at least one of the plurality of modules of the first configuration; responsive to the determination being that the second configuration is at least threshold similar to the first configuration, the first WCD sharing with the second WCD, via the direct wireless link, performance-metric data for a wireless communication network; and the second WCD receiving the performance-metric data for the wireless communication network from the first WCD.