Patent ID: 8379606

Claim:
A method of providing a connection to a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: receiving in the mobile terminal a predetermined maximum delay value from a network; transmitting a plurality of probe sequences, wherein each of the plurality of probe sequences comprises a plurality of access probes that individually request a connection to the network, and wherein each of the plurality of access probes is assigned an access probe number, and computing, for each of the probe sequences, a random delay between temporally adjacent access probes of the plurality of access probes, wherein each of the computed random delays causes a delay in the transmitting of an associated access probe of the plurality of access probes, wherein the computing of each of the random delays uses a hash function that is based upon the predetermined maximum delay value received from the network, a user ID of the mobile terminal, and the access probe number, and wherein the random delay of each respective access probe is calculated prior to the transmission of each access probe.