| 发明名称 | Methods and apparatus to discover network capabilities available via wireless networks | ||
| 摘要 | Example methods and apparatus to discover network capabilities available via wireless networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves discovering first network capabilities by performing an exchange between a wireless terminal and an access point of a wireless local area network. The method also involves comparing the first network capabilities with cached network capabilities and joining the wireless terminal with the access point based on at least a portion of the first network capabilities matching at least a portion of the cached network capabilities. | ||
| 申请公布号 | US8923257(B2) | 申请公布日期 | 2014.12.30 |
| 申请号 | US201012893835 | 申请日期 | 2010.09.29 |
| 申请人 | BlackBerry Limited | 发明人 | Montemurro Michael;McCann Stephen |
| 分类号 | H04W40/20;H04L29/08;H04W48/16;H04W84/12 | 主分类号 | H04W40/20 |
| 代理机构 | Hanley, Flight and Zimmerman, LLC | 代理人 | Hanley, Flight and Zimmerman, LLC |
| 主权项 | 1. A method for network selection, the method comprising: discovering first network capabilities by performing an exchange between a wireless terminal and an access point of a wireless local area network; comparing the first network capabilities with cached capabilities; finding a match between at least a portion of the first network capabilities and at least a portion of the cached capabilities; filtering the matched capabilities at the wireless terminal based on a ranking, the filtering of the matched capabilities comprising filtering out one of the matched capablities based on the ranking; and joining the wireless terminal with the access point based on at least a portion of the first network capabilities matching at least a portion of the cached capabilities. | ||
| 地址 | Waterloo, Ontario CA | ||