Patent ID: 8195204
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. In a mobile station, a method comprising: storing in data storage of the mobile station a list of wireless coverage sectors and their respective locations; determining a geographic location of the mobile station; sorting wireless coverage sectors of the list in order of distance between their locations and the determined mobile station location, so as to produce a sorted list of wireless coverage sectors, wherein sorting wireless coverage sectors of the list in order of distance between their locations and the determined mobile station location, so as to produce a sorted list of wireless coverage sectors comprises (a) filtering the list to exclude wireless coverage sectors that are in any of an active set of the mobile station, a candidate set of the mobile station, and a neighbor set of the mobile station, (b) for each remaining wireless coverage sector in the list, determining a distance between the wireless coverage sector's location and the determined location of the mobile station, and (c) sorting the wireless coverage sectors of the list in order from closest to the mobile station to farthest from the mobile station, to produce the sorted list; and scanning for pilot signals from the wireless coverage sectors of the sorted list, in the order sorted.