Patent ID: 7844237

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a receiver at a location that receives signals over a spectrum of frequencies from one or more base stations, wherein each base station is at a position and each frequency is associated with a channel; a signal analyzer unit associated with the receiver; a location interpolation component that evaluates kinetics data for a motion of the receiver; and a frequency skip component that is part of the signal analyzer unit and scans for one or more interested frequencies and skips one or more unscanned frequencies during the scan; wherein the frequency skip component designates a channel selected at interval m as: Channel at Interval m =[1+(2 B+ 1)× m ] [Mod N] wherein; N=number of interested channels: B=+channel tolerance that represents number of neighboring channel(s) that can be detected at one of above and below a channel that the receiver is tuned for; wherein the signal analyzer unit supplies a scan for the spectrum of frequencies, and identifies received signals and the base stations associated with the identified signals.