Patent ID: 8437799

Claim:
A method for operations by a communications device, the method comprising: determining, by the communications device, if a first communications controller is broadcasting an operating mode indicator, wherein the operating mode indicator indicates selected communications devices and non-selected communications devices; continuing, by the communications device, to access the first communications controller when the first communications controller is not broadcasting the operating mode indicator; continuing, by the communications device, to access the first communications controller in response to determining that the operating mode indicator indicates that the communications device is a selected communications device; and searching, by the communications device, for an alternative communications controller when the communications controller is broadcasting the operating mode indicator and when the operating mode indicator indicates that the communications device is a non-selected communications device, wherein the operating mode indicator comprises a first closed subscriber group (CSG) identifier, wherein the communications device has a second CSG identifier, and wherein the communications device is a non-selected communications device when the first CSG identifier is not equal to the second CSG identifier.