Patent ID: 9369952
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. In a mobile station operative to maintain in data storage an active set specifying a plurality of wireless coverage areas (“active set members”) in which the mobile station is currently set to communicate, a method comprising: the mobile station wirelessly receiving a neighbor list update message (NLUM) that contains a plurality of different neighbor lists, each of the plurality of neighbor lists listing respective neighbors and defining a respective priority scanning order of the neighbors listed in the neighbor list, wherein the neighbor lists of the plurality contained in the received NLUM all comprise a same set of neighbors as each other but all list neighbors in a different respective priority scanning order than each other; the mobile station monitoring signal strength of each of the mobile station's active set members; the mobile station determining a first rank-ordering of the mobile station's active set members based on the relative signal strength of the active set members; based on the determined first rank-ordering of the mobile station's active set members, the mobile station selecting one of the plurality of neighbor lists; and the mobile station scanning the neighbors listed in the selected neighbor list, wherein the scanning is carried out according to the priority scanning order of the selected neighbor list.