Patent ID: 9706485
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of conducting a public land mobile network (PLMN) search for a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) on a mobile communication device, comprising: profiling a frequency space to identify one or more frequency bands that may be utilized by one of the plurality of RATs; determining, according to a priority ordering of the plurality of RATs, a RAT that utilizes each identified frequency band, wherein the priority ordering is based on a size of a frequency bandwidth of each RAT of the plurality of RATs; adding, for each RAT in the plurality of RATs, the identified frequency bands utilized by each RAT to exclude lists associated with other RATs in the plurality of RATs; and conducting a PLMN search for each RAT in the plurality of RATs utilizing the exclude lists associated with each RAT.