SWITCHING BETWEEN NETWORKS BASED ON QUALITY OF AVAILABLE NETWORKS

摘要

A wireless communication enabled device can establish a connection with a wireless communications network and can assign a network quality score to the wireless communications network based on one or more characteristics of the wireless communications network. The wireless communication enabled device can observe a current quality of the connection with the wireless communications network. If the quality of the network connection has degraded below a threshold level, the wireless communication enabled device can start a network reevaluation timer. The length of time monitored by the network reevaluation timer can be based on the assigned network quality score. Upon expiration of the network reevaluation timer, the wireless communication enabled device reevaluates the quality of the network connection. If the network connection is still in a degraded state at the time of reevaluation, the wireless communication enabled device may switch to another available wireless communications network.