Patent ID: 7929964

Claim:
A method of managing a mobile station's wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) communication capability, comprising the steps of: turning off the Wi-Fi communication capability when the mobile station is not actively engaged in Wi-Fi communications; automatically activating a Wi-Fi probing mode for determining whether the Wi-Fi communication capability of the mobile station should remain active, automatically activating the Wi-Fi probing mode responsive to at least one of a dual mode service probe timer of the mobile station expiring or the mobile station losing contact with a source of location information; determining whether a Wi-Fi access point is available in the vicinity of the mobile station during the Wi-Fi probing mode; establishing a Wi-Fi communications connection if a Wi-Fi access point is detected; establishing a list of locations where the mobile station detects a Wi-Fi access point; and associating an indication of a current time with a location on the list when the mobile station detects a Wi-Fi access point at the location; determining an amount of time that has elapsed since the most recent time associated with a location in the list; and deleting the location from the list if the amount of elapsed time exceeds a threshold.