Method for providing band scanning prioritization, and a mobile communications device incorporating the method

A mobile communications device being associated with a user, the mobile communications device comprising:

• a modem entity adapted to connect the mobile communications device to a cellular communications network,
• an application entity adapted to run application software, the application software configured to access data having information pertaining to present time and an intended future location of the user at a specific time in the future, wherein the intended future location of the user at the specific time in the future, which is determined from the data, is different from a current location of the user at the present time, and
• a communication entity adapted to provide communication between the modem entity and the application entity, and
• the communication entity adapted to retrieve the information pertaining to present time and the intended future location of the user at the specific time in the future from the application entity,
• the communication entity adapted to determine, before the mobile communications device is set in a non-connected but still turned on state or the mobile communications device is switched to a turned off state, a probable future location to which the mobile communications device is predicted to move between the time (i) the mobile communications device is set in the non-connected but still turned on state or the mobile communications device is switched to the turned off state and (ii) the mobile communication device is returned to a connected state, taking into account the information pertaining to present time and the intended future location of the user at the specific time in the future, and
• at least one of the modem entity or the communication entity adapted to establish, before the mobile communications device is set in the non-connected but still turned on state or the mobile communications device is switched to the turned off state, a band scanning prioritization taking into account the probable future location of the mobile communications device.