Patent ID: 8331285

Claim:
A method of establishing an access channel in a wireless communication system, comprising: determining by an access terminal whether an access grant is received on a carrier on which an access probe of a current AttemptAccess command was transmitted; determining by the access terminal whether an access grant timer has expired; determining by the access terminal whether an IdleState.IdleHO indication is received; determining by the access terminal whether a new AttemptAccess command is received during processing of the current AttemptAccess command, wherein the new AttemptAccess command is processed after a probe transmission of the current AttemptAccess command ends; and ending further transmission of the current AttemptAccess command access probe if any of the determining whether an access grant is received, the determining whether an access grant timer has expired, the determining whether an IdleState.IdleHO indication is received, or the determining whether a new AttemptAccess command is received results in a positive determination.