> The patent appears to be about selecting a network carrier using a bidding process. The device can choose a network based on price and quality of service. Wha

> The patent appears to be about selecting a network carrier using a bidding process. The device can choose a network based on price and quality of service. What prior art is there for this? It's a common-knowledge approach in general: Obtain a service based on price and quality. Modifying that to obtain service of type __ should not represent a novel patentable idea. In a non-broken system these kind of patents would only apply to the specific selection technology/method and not to an obvious general concept. How broadly applicable it will be in practice? Who knows? I'd say since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_International http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Interna... it's more promising.