Patent ID: 8737991

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, at a mobile station, a first message from a base station, the first message including a first system identifier (SID) and other information; identifying a first geographic coordinate based on the other information; updating, by the mobile station, a database by associating the first SID with the first geographic coordinate, the database being stored within the mobile station and including a set of SIDs, each SID of the set of SIDs being associated via the database with a respective geographic coordinate; querying the updated database to identify a subset of the set of SIDs based on a detected location of the mobile station, each SID in the subset of SIDs being associated with a respective geographic coordinate corresponding to the first geographic coordinate; identifying a first scan list based on a GEO Locate Table of the mobile station, the first scan list being associated with one or more networks; and using, by the mobile station, the identified subset of the set of SIDS and the first scan list to create a second scan list that is associated with the one or more networks and that is based on the first geographic coordinate, wherein the second list is smaller than the first list.