A METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SHORTEN THE DURATION OF INITIAL NETWORK SELECTION AND HANDOVER DECISIONS IN MULTICOMM PLATFORMS BY UTILIZING ALTERNATE FRAGMENTED SCANNING

摘要

An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter capable of combining more than one wireless communication technology (comm) for wireless communication in a wireless network, wherein the apparatus includes a network detection phase implemented by doing a full scan of one comm followed by one or more additional comm scans; and wherein the network adapter breaks a scan into buckets, and alternates between different scanning buckets of different comms to provide faster scanning, connection time and handover from one wireless technology to another wireless technology.