Patent ID: 6343070
Filing Date: 2002-01-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method of acquiring communications for a user terminal with a radiotelephone communications system having a plurality of communications channels, said method comprising the steps of:storing a previously acquired communications channel in a user terminal memory; searching for said previously acquired communications channel in said user terminal memory; acquiring said previously acquired communications channel when said previously acquired communications channel is available; and providing radiotelephone communications between the user terminal and the radiotelephone communications system over said previously acquired communications channel when said previously acquired communications channel is available; wherein said storing step comprises storing a plurality of previously acquired communications channels in said user terminal memory, and wherein said searching step comprises searching for said plurality of previously acquired communications channels; and wherein said storing step comprises storing an access count for each of said previously acquired communications channels wherein said access count identifies a number of times said respective communications channel has been acquired by said user terminal, and wherein said searching step comprises sequentially searching said previously acquired communications channels in order of a highest access count.