Patent ID: 6873284

Claim:
A method of creating a scan strategy to detect signals from at least two emitters, the scan strategy having at least one dwell, wherein a dwell indicates a frequency range, a duration of time a receiver is tuned to the frequency range, how often the receiver revisits the frequency range, and a detecting method, the method comprising acts of: a) selecting a first dwell having a first dwell duration and a first revisit time and a second dwell having a second dwell duration and a second revisit time for evaluation, the first dwell and the second dwell having a same frequency range and a same detecting method; b) determining a first cost of the first dwell; c) determining a second cost of the second dwell; and d) merging the first dwell and the second dwell to create a third dwell, the third dwell having a third dwell duration of a greater of the first dwell duration and the second dwell duration and a third revisit time of a lesser of the first revisit time and the second revisit time.