Patent ID: 6415148
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A wireless communication system to establish a communication link with a selected service provider system, the system comprising:a first data structure containing data related to a plurality of possible service provider systems that may provide service to a wireless communication device, the data structure containing data indicating a selected one of the plurality of service provider systems in a particular geographic region as a more desirable service provider system than other ones of the plurality of service provider systems in the particular geographic region; a system selection processor to acquire service from one of the plurality of possible service provider systems, the system selection processor further determining if the acquired service provider system is the more desirable service provider system in the particular geographic region; a second data structure containing data related to selected ones of the plurality of service providers in the particular geographic region that are classified as more desirable service provider systems than the acquired service provider system, the system selection processor periodically attempting to acquire service from the selected ones of the plurality of service providers in the particular geographic region that are classified as more desirable systems than the acquired service provider system; and a third data structure containing data related to a predetermined number of service provider systems which previously provided service to the wireless communication device, the system selection processor sorting the data in the second data structure using the data in the third data structure wherein data in the second data structure related to more desirable service provider systems are sequenced in the second data structure based or, the presence and sequence of the same service provider systems in the third data structure.