Patent ID: 8565107

Claim:
A terminal for use within an unknown regulatory domain, the terminal comprising: one or more processors; one or more computer readable storage mediums; a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface comprising a radio, the radio being operative in a frequency band; first program instructions to actively scan one or more regulatory domain independent channels in the frequency band; second program instructions to configure the terminal for use in the unknown regulatory domain in response to the terminal receiving regulatory domain information as a result of actively scanning one or more of the regulatory domain independent channels; third program instructions to passively scan one or more regulatory domain dependent channels in the frequency band in response to the terminal not receiving the regulatory domain information as a result of actively scanning one or more of the regulatory domain independent channels; fourth program instructions to configure the terminal for use in the unknown regulatory domain in response to passively scanning one or more regulatory domain dependent channels in the frequency band; wherein the first, second, third, and fourth program instructions are stored on the one or more computer readable storage mediums for execution by the one or more processors.