METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRAVERSING A SCAN LIST IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A wireless communication device accesses (202) a scan list that includes a plurality of scan members sorted at least by receive frequency and attempts to detect whether a call of interest exists on a receive frequency by performing a group scan for a group (210, 242) of scan members that are marked scan undone and that have the same corresponding receive frequency, wherein the group includes a first scan member and at least one other scan member. The group scan includes inspecting (212, 244) the receive frequency to obtain inspection results; using (214) the inspection results to determine that there is no signal on the receive frequency having signal attributes that match a set of attributes for the first scan member; and using (214) the inspection results to evaluate at least one of the other scan members in the group to determine whether there is a corresponding signal of interest on the receive frequency.