Patent ID: 11889472
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication network to page a wireless communication device over Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) access points, the method comprising:
a WIFI gateway identifying WIFI networks that serve the wireless user device;
the WIFI gateway determining individual ones of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) access points to page the wireless user device based on the individual ones of the WIFI networks that serve the wireless user device;
the WIFI gateway indicating the OFDM access points to a paging system;
the paging system receiving service messages from the OFDM access points that are serving the wireless user device when the wireless user device is in active mode;
the paging system determining the individual ones of the OFDM access points to page the wireless user device based on the service messages; and
the paging system receiving a page for the wireless user device and responsively transferring the page to a current one of the OFDM access points indicated by at least one of the WIFI gateway or the service messages, wherein the current one of the OFDM access points receives the page and wirelessly transfers the page to the wireless user device.