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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2017
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Masaaki Yoshino, Kanagawa, JP;
PANASONIC CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In order for a terminal to efficiently find an optimal connection destination based on a state of the terminal, the terminal includes: a location information acquirer configured to acquire the terminal's location information; an information storage configured to accumulate historical information on past communication statuses at respective locations within a communication area of the base station apparatus; a moving state estimator configured to estimate a moving state of the terminal based on the location information; a destination predictor configured to predict a destination area of the terminal based on the moving state; a measurement target extractor configured to extract one or more measurement target candidates as targets for communication quality measurement based on the historical information associated with the destination area; and a communication quality measurer configured to measure one or more communication qualities associated with the one or more measurement target candidates extracted by the measurement target extractor.