Patent ID: 7050771

Claim:
A mobile station, comprising: a radio frequency (RF) transceiver; a memory storing a list of entries, individual ones of said entries corresponding to a frequency band comprising at least one frequency channel; and a controller, bidirectionally coupled to said memory and to said RF transceiver, and operating in response to a search procedure being invoked to locate a desired Non-Public wireless communication system, specifically one of a Residential wireless communication system or a Private wireless communication system, for accessing said memory to obtain a first entry of said list so as to determine a first frequency band to be searched for said desired one of said Residential wireless communication system or said Private wireless communication system, said controller being programmed to execute, using said RF transceiver, a search procedure in said first frequency band being searched in an attempt to locate a control channel of said desired one of said Residential wireless communication system or said Private wireless communication system and, if said control channel of said desired one of said Residential wireless communication system or said Private wireless communication system is not located within said first frequency band being searched, for accessing said memory to obtain a next entry in said list to determine a next frequency band to be searched for said desired one of said Residential wireless communication system or said Private wireless communication system, said controller continuing to search in this manner until either all of said entries of said list have been obtained from said memory or until said control channel of said desired one of said Residential wireless communication system or said Private wireless communication system is located.