Patent Document ID: 8010105
Application ID: 11750417
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for facilitating accelerated network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device, comprising: maintaining a list of networks; for each network in said list of networks, determining a respective network availability likelihood score associated therewith by one of (a) multiplying a connections count, corresponding to a number of prior connections of said wireless UE device with said network, by a connections count weighting factor of a weighting factors array; (b) multiplying a minutes count, corresponding to a total duration of prior connections of said wireless UE device with said network, by a minutes count weighting factor of said weighting factors array; and (c) multiplying a time lapse value, corresponding to an amount of elapsed time since at least one time stamp of at least one prior connection of said wireless UE device with said network, by a time lapse weighting factor of said weighting factors array; and prior to performing a full band scan, selecting a network from said list of networks based on said network availability likelihood score associated therewith.