Patent ID: 8923856

Claim:
A radio communication device communicating with other communication devices via radio stations, the radio communication device comprising: a processor configured to execute a procedure, including managing radio station profiles including identification information of the radio stations and type information indicating whether the radio stations support voice communications, respectively; receiving a signal including the identification information from one of the radio stations; selecting one or both of a first scanning procedure and a second scanning procedure to be performed based on the type information of the one of the radio stations that corresponds to the identification information in the received signal; and performing the selected one or both of the first scanning procedure and the second scanning procedure, wherein the first scanning procedure is performed for a first period of time on the radio stations corresponding to the radio station profiles and supporting the voice communications to find a radio station to be connected; and the second scanning procedure is performed for a second period of time on the radio stations corresponding to the radio station profiles and not supporting the voice communications to find a radio station to be connected, and wherein the second period of time is less than the first period of time.