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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2009
Applicants:

Francis M. Ngai, Louisville, CO (US);

Parag Mohan Kanade, San Diego, CA (US);

Alex Kuang-hsuan Tu, San Diego, CA (US);

Virat Deepak, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Francis M. Ngai, Louisville, CO (US);

Parag Mohan Kanade, San Diego, CA (US);

Alex Kuang-Hsuan Tu, San Diego, CA (US);

Virat Deepak, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A channel scanning order is dynamically created, modified, selectively ignored, or combinations thereof based on historical data, motion information, context information, alert message systems, network reselection, or combinations thereof. If a less preferred network has served a mobile device longer than a threshold amount of time, acquisition of the less preferred network is attempted before attempting acquisition of a more preferred network.


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