Techniques for establishing a communication handoff threshold using user feedback

1. At least one machine-readable non-transitory medium comprising a set of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device cause the computing device to:

receive data for discrete time intervals, the data for each time interval comprising a plurality of Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link parameter values for a VoIP communication link between a hybrid mobile device and a call server;

apply a logistic regression statistical model using the received data, the logistic regression statistical model operative to determine a coefficient for each of the VoIP communication link parameters;

calculate an instantaneous audio quality raw score comprised of the sum of each VoIP communication link parameter multiplied by its respective coefficient; and

handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the instantaneous audio quality raw score is greater than or equal to a threshold audio quality raw score.

2. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , the VoIP communication link parameters comprising at least two of: a received signal strength (RSSI) between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, a link speed between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, jitter, latency, the number of dropped packets in a packet data stream, the number of holes in a packet data stream (num_holes), the average hole size, the maximum hole size, and transformed parameters.

3. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 2 , comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the computing device cause the computing device to:

create transformed VoIP communication link parameters by applying mathematical functions to one or more VoIP communication link parameters, the mathematical functions including translation, negation, summation, multiplication, power functions, logarithms, exponentiation, and step functions such that the resulting transformed parameters are not identical to any individual VoIP communication link parameter;

re-determine a coefficient for each of the individual and/or transformed VoIP communication link parameters; and

re-determine the audio quality raw score threshold to include the transformed VoIP communication link parameters.

4. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 2 , comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the computing device cause the computing device to:

automatically prevent a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the link speed exceeds a first pre-determined threshold value and jitter is less than a first pre-determined threshold value.

5. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 2 , comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the computing device cause the computing device to:

automatically cause a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the num_holes is greater then or equal to a first pre-determined threshold value and jitter is greater then or equal to a second pre-determined threshold value and RSSI is less than a first pre-determined threshold value.

6. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the computing device cause the computing device to:

automatically prevent a handoff when an instantaneous audio quality raw score is greater than or equal to the threshold audio quality raw score but an instantaneous audio quality raw score for the prior time-interval is less than the threshold audio quality raw score.

7. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , the alternate communication link comprising a mobile communication link to a mobile network.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor component;

communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

receive data for discrete time intervals, the data for each time interval comprising a plurality of Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link parameter values for a VoIP communication link between a hybrid mobile device and a call server;

apply a logistic regression statistical model using the received data, the logistic regression statistical model operative to determine a coefficient for each of the VoIP communication link parameters;

calculate an instantaneous audio quality raw score comprised of the sum of each VoIP communication link parameter multiplied by its respective coefficient; and

handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the instantaneous audio quality raw score is greater than or equal to a threshold audio quality raw score.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , the VoIP communication link parameters comprising at least two of: a received signal strength (RSSI) between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, a link speed between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, jitter, latency, the number of dropped packets in a packet data stream, the number of holes in a packet data stream (num_holes), the average hole size, the maximum hole size, and transformed parameters.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , the communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

create transformed VoIP communication link parameters by applying mathematical functions to one or more VoIP communication link parameters, the mathematical functions including translation, negation, summation, multiplication, power functions, logarithms, exponentiation, and step functions such that the resulting transformed parameters are not identical to any individual VoIP communication link parameter;

re-determine a coefficient for each of the individual and/or transformed VoIP communication link parameters; and

re-determine the audio quality raw score threshold to include the transformed VoIP communication link parameters.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 , the communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

automatically prevent a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the link speed exceeds a first pre-determined threshold value and jitter is less than a first pre-determined threshold value.

12. The apparatus of claim 9 , the communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

automatically cause a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the num_holes is greater then or equal to a first pre-determined threshold value and jitter is greater then or equal to a second pre-determined threshold value and RSSI is less than a first pre-determined threshold value.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , the communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

automatically prevent a handoff when an instantaneous audio quality raw score is greater than or equal to the threshold audio quality raw score but an instantaneous audio quality raw score for the prior time-interval is less than the threshold audio quality raw score.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , the alternate communication link comprising a mobile communication link to a mobile network.

15. A computer implemented method operative on a processor component, the method comprising:

receiving data for discrete time intervals, the data for each time interval comprising a plurality of Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link parameter values for a VoIP communication link between a hybrid mobile device and a call server;

applying a logistic regression statistical model using the received data, the logistic regression statistical model operative to determine a coefficient for each of the VoIP communication link parameters;

calculating an instantaneous audio quality raw score comprised of the sum of each VoIP communication link parameter multiplied by its respective coefficient; and

performing a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the instantaneous audio quality raw score is greater than or equal to a threshold audio quality raw score.

16. The method of claim 15 , the VoIP communication link parameters comprising at least two of: a received signal strength (RSSI) between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, a link speed between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, jitter, latency, the number of dropped packets in a packet data stream, the number of holes in a packet data stream (num_holes), the average hole size, the maximum hole size, and transformed parameters.

17. The method of claim 16 , comprising:

creating transformed VoIP communication link parameters by applying mathematical functions to one or more VoIP communication link parameters, the mathematical functions including translation, negation, summation, multiplication, power functions, logarithms, exponentiation, and step functions such that the resulting transformed parameters are not identical to any individual VoIP communication link parameter;

re-determining a coefficient for each of the individual and/or transformed VoIP communication link parameters; and

re-determining the audio quality raw score threshold to include the transformed VoIP communication link parameters.

18. The method of claim 16 , comprising:

automatically preventing a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the link speed exceeds a first pre-determined threshold value and jitter is less than a first pre-determined threshold value.

19. The method of claim 16 , comprising:

automatically causing a handoff of the VoIP communication link to an alternate communication link when the num_holes is greater then or equal to a first pre-determined threshold value and jitter is greater then or equal to a second pre-determined threshold value and RSSI is less than a first pre-determined threshold value.

20. The method of claim 15 , comprising:

automatically preventing a handoff when an instantaneous audio quality raw score is greater than or equal to the threshold audio quality raw score but an instantaneous audio quality raw score for the prior time-interval is less than the threshold audio quality raw score.

21. The method of claim 15 , the alternate communication link comprising a mobile communication link to a mobile network.