Mobile bandwidth advisor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9185643-B2
Application number	US-201414557095-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 1, 2014
Priority date	Sep 27, 2011
Publication date	Nov 10, 2015
Grant date	Nov 10, 2015

Abstract

A wireless communication device is provided that includes a cellular telephony module to access a cellular network, a wireless communication module to access a non-cellular network, an antenna configured to be in wireless communication with a plurality of compatible and currently accessible communication networks including the cellular and non-cellular networks, a mobile network analyzer operable to determine network information about cellular and non-cellular communication networks, and a mobile network selector to determine, based on network information supplied by the mobile network analyzer whether a currently accessed communication network is sufficiently capable to perform a device activity already initiated or to be initiated by a user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wireless communication device comprising:
a display to provide graphical information to a user;
a cellular telephony hardware module to access at least one cellular network;
a wireless communication hardware module to access at least one non-cellular network;
an antenna configured to be in wireless communication with a plurality of compatible and currently accessible communication networks, the plurality of compatible and currently accessible communi…

Assignees

• Z124

Inventors

• Jouin Christophe Max Jean

Classifications

• H04W72/563

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/63

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/631

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F9/44

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0346

  Physics · mapped topic