METHOD FOR SELECTING AND AIR INTERFACE USING AND ACCESS LIST ON A MULTI-MODE WIRELESS DEVICE

摘要

Application-specific access lists (40) are provided for a multimode mobile wireless device (12). The multimode mobile device has an access list (36) for each wireless technology (38). Typically, these technology specific access lists (36) are standard for each technology, and are provided by a service provider or the manufacturer of the multimode mobile device. For each application the multimode wireless device is a likely to operate, an application-specific access list (42, 44) is generated. The application-specific access list (42, 44) ranks the wireless technologies according to its relative desirability for the application. In this way, when the multimode mobile device (12) requests an application, the application-specific access list (42, 44) may be used to efficiently acquire a network preferred for that particular application. The application-specific access lists (40) may be updated from time to time as applications are added or changed, as technology specific access lists (36) are updated, or as geographic location changes.