Patent ID: 8774158

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a network adapter capable of combining more than one wireless communication technology (comm) for wireless communication in a wireless network; wherein said apparatus includes a network detection phase to select an available network by performing a network selection scan of at least a first comm and a second comm until a network is found; wherein said network adapter breaks the network selection scan of at least a first comm and a second comm into scanning buckets, and alternates network selection scanning between scanning buckets of the first comm and the second comm to reduce a time of finding at least one of the comms; wherein each comm fragments the comm's network selection scanning to scanning buckets, B, B[comm][i] (i>1); such that when executing B[comm],[i] there is a chance of X[comm][i] percent to successfully find a network in the shortest time possible; and wherein said apparatus then performs time-division multiplexing (TDM) based network selection scanning in the following pattern: B[comm 1 ][ 1 ], B[comm 2 ]| 1 ], B[comm 1 ][ 2 ], B[comm 2 ][ 2 ], B[comm 1 ][ 3 ], B[comm 2 ][ 3 ], and continued until a network is found.