DYNAMIC WIRELESS NETWORK ACCESS POINT SELECTION

摘要

Dynamic Wireless Network Access Point Selection A mobile device having a processor, a memory and a wireless network interface, the processor executing an operating system including a network communication library for providing networking services via the wireless network interface and being further arranged to: receive capability information associated with each of plurality of wireless network access points accessible to the mobile device; identify, for a set of networked applications in execution on the mobile device, one or more applications having associated a wireless network capability requirement; and select an access point from the plurality of access points to provide network communication for the mobile device, the access point being selected based on the identified one or more applications and the received capability information, wherein network communication for applications executed by the mobile device having associated a wireless network capability requirement that is incompatible with a network capability of the selected access point are prevented from network communication by the network communication library.