Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Celico Partnership

Stanley A Zadrozny

Derek Hongwei Bao

William Howard Stone, Jr

Reza Okhravi

Lalit R Kotecha

Lee K Tjio

Fangqiu Tu

Robert Boice

A device may receive a request for an electronic program guide from a user device and determine a location of the user device. The device may determine, based on the determining that the user device is located in a first location, a group of different types of networks available to the user device and may provide, based on the determined group of different types of networks available to the user device, the electronic program guide for display. The electronic program guide may include a network identifier for each of one or more available channels associated with each of the determined group of different types of networks, and a content identifier associated with a respective one of the one or more available channels associated with each of the determined group of different types of networks.

Unified electronic program guide

A server device may be configured to determine a first measure of throughput associated with a cellular wireless network, determine a second measure of throughput associated with a wireless local area network ('WLAN'), compare the first measure of throughput to the second measure of throughput; select, based on the comparing, a particular one of the cellular wireless network or the WLAN, and send an instruction to a user device that is in range of the cellular wireless network and the WLAN, the instruction instructing the user device to connect to the particular selected wireless network.

Dynamic load balancing based on network performance

An apparatus for system selection includes a processing element. The processing element may be configured to commence a search for a network service system, determine whether a real-time application is active, and select a network service system in response to a determination that the real-time application is active according to a preference order that is different than an order of preference for network service systems for use if the real-time application is not active.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for system selection during service acquisition

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Stanley A Zadrozny