Patent ID: 7979068

Claim:
A method for traversing a scan list, the method comprising: accessing a scan list comprising a plurality of scan members each having a corresponding receive frequency and set of attributes used by a wireless communication device to identify whether a corresponding signal of interest is on the receive frequency; and performing a group scan on a first group of scan members comprising a first subset of the plurality of scan members that are marked scan undone and that have a same corresponding first receive frequency, wherein the group comprises a first scan member and at least one other scan member, wherein the group scan comprises: inspecting the first receive frequency to obtain first inspection results; using the first inspection results to determine that there is no signal on the first receive frequency having signal attributes that match the set of attributes for the first scan member; and using the first inspection results to evaluate at least one of the other scan members in the first group to determine whether there is a corresponding signal of interest on the first receive frequency.