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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2008
Alex Shusterman, Vienna, VA (US);
Alex Shusterman, Vienna, VA (US);
Nextel Communications, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
A communications device, and a method for efficient utilization of multiple radio access technologies in the communications device, is disclosed. The communications device includes a plurality of radios, where each of the plurality of radios is communicable with a respective one of a plurality of radio access technologies. The communications device attempts to extract control channel information from a radio access technology assigned a highest priority in a first geographic area by a radio associated with the highest priority radio access technology in the first geographic area and, if the control channel information for the highest priority radio access technology in the first geographic area is extracted by the radio associated with the highest priority radio access technology in the first geographic area, the communications device does not enable a second radio associated with a second lower priority radio access technology in the first geographic area.