Patent ID: 8218478

Claim:
Apparatus for a mobile node station to facilitate formation, using an appropriate protocol, of a communication connection with a network, the mobile node station operable to selectively communicate according to either one of a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, said apparatus comprising: a memory element adapted to store a listing of networks and an indication of an associated protocol used for making a successful previous connection with networks previously encountered, said memory element configured to maintain a table identifying which of the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol results in success of the formation of the communication connection with the network; an access message generator configured to generate a first access message to initiate formation of the communication connection with the network, the first access message having either one of a first syntactically formatted network access identifier or a second syntactically formatted network access identifier in accordance with the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol, respectively, selection of which of the first or second syntactically formatted network access identifier of the first access message made by access to the table; and a content reselector configured, responsive to failure of formation of the communication connection, to instruct said access message generator to generate a second access message having the other of the first content and second content in accordance with the other one of the first communication protocol and the second communication protocol so as to reattempt initiation of formation of the communication connection.