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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2010
Doug Dunn, Chula Vista, CA (US);
Amit Kalhan, La Jolla, CA (US);
Anupam Juneja, San Diego, CA (US);
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An exemplary method for searching one of a plurality of systems on a multi-mode device capable of communicating on a first air interface technology and a second air interface technology is disclosed. The exemplary method includes storing a default system search period for one of the air interface technologies, such as WLAN system, receiving user input representative of a user-defined system search period for the WLAN system, storing the user-defined system search period, detecting a system search event for WLAN services, searching WLAN services in response to the system search event, and terminating the WLAN system search after expiration of the user-defined search period.