Indication of Wireless Signal Quality
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAmer A. Hassan, Andrei Jefremov
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Abstract
Techniques for indication of wireless signal quality are described. According to various implementations, attributes of a wireless signal are detected and processed to ascertain a quality of the wireless signal. Based on an ascertained signal quality, indicia of the signal quality can be exposed. For instance, an indication of wireless signal quality is communicated to an application and/or service that manages communication of media data. According to one or more embodiments, an application/service may perform one or more actions based on the indication of signal quality, such as a procedure to improve signal quality, a procedure to optimize wireless performance, and so forth.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- one or more computer-readable storage media including instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the at least one processor, cause the system perform operations including:
- receiving, by at least one of an application or a service, an indication of signal quality of a wireless signal, the signal quality based on media data communicated between a client device and an endpoint device via the at least one of the application or the service;
- and
- performing, by the at least one of the application or the service, one or more actions based on the indication of signal quality, the one or more actions including at least one of:
- initiating a corrective procedure to attempt to increase the signal quality;
- or
- initiating an optimization procedure based on the indication of signal quality.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- ascertaining a signal quality of a wireless signal based at least in part on errors detected in data communicated via the wireless signal, the data including media data communicated between two or more devices;
- and
- communicating a notification of the signal quality to one or more of a communication application or a communication service that manages communication of the media data.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving an indication of signal quality of a wireless signal, the signal quality based at least in part on errors detected in media data communicated via at least one of an application or a service;
- and
- performing, by the at least one of the application or the service, one or more actions based on the indication of signal quality, the one or more actions including causing a graphical user interface to be displayed that includes a visual indication of the signal quality.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.