Patent ID: 8019330

Claim:
A method in a mobile station for use in manually selecting a communication network comprising the acts of: maintaining access to a memory which stores a plurality of network names and a list of address pointers associated with a plurality of network identifications, where the address pointers correspond to the plurality of network names, and at least some of the network identifications are associated with address pointers which correspond to the same or substantially identical network names; receiving an end user input to perform a manual network selection procedure; in the manual network selection procedure: scanning to identify a plurality of communication networks available in a coverage area within which the mobile station is operating; receiving, in response to the act of scanning, a plurality of network identifications corresponding to the plurality of available communication networks; retrieving, from the memory with use of the received network identifications, a plurality of network names corresponding to the plurality of identified communication networks; visually displaying the plurality of retrieved network names; receiving a user input selection of one of the available communication networks as represented by the plurality of retrieved network names being visually displayed; and registering with the selected communication network corresponding to the user input selection.