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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 19, 1997
Geoffrey R Scotton, Woodway, WA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
In a data communications system including an infrastructure 100 and a subscriber terminal 115 a method of acquiring an operating channel at the subscriber unit on power up including: turning on the subscriber unit 203; selecting from a data base a most frequently used channel that corresponds to a last operating channel 209; and attempting to acquire service 213 on the most frequently used channel. Alternatively, in a similar setting at a subscriber terminal a method of acquiring a next operating channel including: exiting an operating channel 317; updating 319 a channel occupancy data base 301 with occupancy information corresponding to the operating channel; selecting, from the channel occupancy data base 309, a next operating channel that corresponds to information from past operating channels; and attempting to acquire service 313 on the next operating channel.