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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2002
R. Nicholson Gibson, Boulder, CO (US);
Jon J. Anderson, Boulder, CO (US);
Dianne Horn, Longmont, CO (US);
Francis M. Ngai, Louisville, CO (US);
Glenn Salaman, Lafayette, CO (US);
R. Nicholson Gibson, Boulder, CO (US);
Jon J. Anderson, Boulder, CO (US);
Dianne Horn, Longmont, CO (US);
Francis M. Ngai, Louisville, CO (US);
Glenn Salaman, Lafayette, CO (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) includes multiple fingers that track one or more tracked transponder beams. Each tracked beam is from a respective tracked transponder. The WCD determines a tracked-beam searcher energy for each of the tracked beams, and an untracked-beam searcher energy for each of one or more untracked beams from each of the tracked transponders. The WCD attempts to determine a preferred one of the untracked beams that should become a tracked beam. This determination is made based on the tracked-beam and the untracked-beam searcher energies. The WCD assigns, or alternatively, reassigns, a finger to the preferred untracked beam when the attempt to determine a preferred untracked beam is successful. The transponders may be satellites or base stations.