Patent ID: 7818024

Claim:
A network selection method for a mobile station, comprising: receiving a user input for manually selecting a non-home communication network for communications with the mobile station in a manual network selection mode of the mobile station; selecting and operating with the manually-selected non-home communication network in response to the user input; in response to regaining signal coverage from an out-of-coverage condition with the manually-selected non-home communication network while in the manual network selection mode, or in response to being powered-on from a power-off state while in the manual network selection mode, causing the following acts to be performed: if the non-home communication network is identified as being available, selecting and operating with the non-home communication network; if the non-home communication network is unavailable and the home communication network is also unavailable: displaying a list of available communication networks for a manual network selection procedure for manual network selection and operation with one of the available communication networks; and if the non-home communication network is unavailable but the home communication network is identified as being available: instead of carrying out the manual network selection procedure for the manual network selection and operation with one of the available communication networks, selecting and operating with the home communication network.