Wireless communication network optimization for user applications in wireless user equipment (UE)

A wireless User Equipment (UE) to optimize network communications for a user application, the wireless UE comprising:

• wireless network circuitry configured to wirelessly receive wireless signals from multiple wireless communication networks, select network slice data for the multiple wireless communication networks, and responsively generate network characteristics for the multiple wireless communication networks;
• user circuitry configured to execute an operating system and the user application;
• the operating system configured to receive a user permission for the user application to access the network characteristics;
• the user application configured to transfer a call for the network characteristics to the operating system;
• the operating system configured to receive the call, and in response to the user permission and the call, transfer a request for the network characteristics to the wireless network circuitry;
• the wireless network circuitry configured to receive the request and responsively transfer the network characteristics including the network slice data to the operating system;
• the operating system configured to receive the network characteristics and responsively transfer the network characteristics including the network slice data to the user application;
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• the user application configured to receive the network characteristics and responsively select one of the multiple wireless communication networks based on the network characteristics including network slice data for the multiple wireless communication networks.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon to optimize network communications for a user application, wherein the program instructions, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• executing an operating system and the user application;
• the operating system receiving a user permission for the user application to access network characteristics wherein the network characteristics are obtained by wireless network circuitry that wirelessly receives wireless signals from multiple wireless communication networks, selects network slice data for the multiple wireless communication networks, and responsively generates the network characteristics for the multiple wireless communication networks;
• the user application transferring a call for the network characteristics to the operating system;
• the operating system receiving the call, and in response to the user permission and the call, transferring a request for the network characteristics to the wireless network circuitry wherein the wireless network circuitry receives the request and responsively transfers the network characteristics including the network slice data to the operating system;
• the operating system receiving the network characteristics and responsively transferring the network characteristics including the network slice data to the user application;
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• the user application receiving the network characteristics and responsively selecting one of the multiple wireless communication networks based on the network characteristics including the network slice data for the multiple wireless communication networks.