Patent ID: 8428586

Claim:
A method for facilitating accelerated network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device, comprising: storing location-related information as said UE device is about to enter a power-off condition, said location-related information comprising at least one of cell ID, microcell ID and WLAN ID; on power-up, estimating a distance that said UE device has traveled while in said power-off condition; manipulating an order of searching a system acquisition database structure, said system acquisition database structure being associated with said wireless UE device and having acquisition records operable with said wireless UE device for discovering a network, said manipulating being based at least in part on said estimated distance and said stored location-related information, and said order of searching being logically sequenced based on said estimated distance that said UE device has traveled while in said power-off condition from a location indicated by said stored location information; and locating a network via scanning by said wireless UE device using scanning data obtained from said system acquisition database structure responsive to said manipulating.