Google Inc.

Brian Clair Williammee

Christian Sonntag

Lawrence Jonathan Brunsman

Andrew Flynn

Emil Valkov

Evan Charlton

Arvind Jain

Weihua Tan

Melodie M Chu

Myra Nam

Xuan Zheng

Jean Choi

Tyler Williams

An example method comprises receiving, by at least one computing device, a first notification from a first mobile computing device and a second notification from a second mobile computing device. The method may further comprise determining, based at least in part on a comparison of the first notification to the second notification, that the first mobile computing device has initiated a phone call with the second mobile computing device. The method may additionally comprise responsive to determining that the first mobile computing device has initiated the phone call with the second mobile computing device, sending, a first message to the first mobile computing device using a first data connection, and sending, a second message to the second mobile computing using a second data connection, wherein the first message and the second messages each indicate that the first and second mobile computing devices are able to exchange application data.

Managing data communications based on phone calls between mobile computing devices

A method includes receiving a carrier switching model, determining that user equipment (UE) is transitioning between carrier cells based on at least one connection performance metric of the UE, and obtaining a current UE location and any available carrier networks of carriers relative to the current UE location. The method also includes determining a carrier switch score for each available carrier network using the carrier switching model and determining to switch carrier networks based on the carrier switch score of a currently-connected available carrier network relative to the carrier switch score of another available carrier network. Each carrier switch score is based on at least one of a predicted signal strength or a predicted radio access technology over a threshold period of time for the respective available carrier network. The method also includes causing the UE to switch connection to the other available carrier network.

Carrier switching

A method including: receiving network performance parameters of a plurality of data networks, the network performance parameters being collected by individual client devices of a plurality of client devices; receiving location data indicating a geographic location of the individual client devices when the network performance parameters were collected, the received location data being associated with respective network performance parameters; selecting, from the received location data, a subset of the received location data associated with network performance parameters of a first data network of the plurality of data networks; calculating a geographic location of a first access point of the first data network based on at least one geographic location indicated by the subset of the received location data; and building a database entry indicating the calculated geographic location of the first access point.

Network selection using current and historical measurements

A system and method for aiding selection of a data network based on access point location and historical performance parameters of the data network is provided. The system and method include a server receiving location information and network performance parameters from a plurality of client devices. The location information relates a location of an individual client device of the plurality of client devices, and the network performance parameters are measured from data networks available to the individual client device at the time of reporting its location information. Using the received location information and network performance parameters, the server determines a geographic location of an access point for each of the available data networks. Using the geographic location of the access point for each of the available data networks, the server then removes a subset of the performance parameters, and builds a database of summarized performance parameters based on the subset.

A system and method are provided for collecting wireless network quality parameters. The wireless network quality parameters are collected from wireless networks by a client device in communication with the wireless network. The client device reports the wireless network quality parameters to a server. The server collects wireless network quality parameters from a plurality of client devices and analyzes the wireless network quality parameters from the plurality of client devices to determine a network quality for the particular wireless networks. The network quality is stored in a network quality database maintained by the server. The server provides access to the network quality for devices with permission to access the wireless network quality database.

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Brian Clair Williammee