Patent ID: 9357524
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: maintaining, at a mobility management entity (MME) in a communication network, a list of eNodeBs from which a user equipment (UE) was actively communicating with the communication network, the list also including indications of tracking areas of eNodeBs of the list, wherein each tracking area includes a plurality of eNodeBs of the communication network; receiving a page request for the UE at the MME; in response to determining the tracking area of an eNodeB with which the UE was last actively communicating, sending a first page request to at least one eNodeB in the tracking area of the eNodeB with which the UE was last actively communicating; identifying a set of at least one tracking area to flood based on the list maintained at the MME, wherein at least one tracking area identified in the list maintained by the MME is excluded from the set of at least one tracking area to flood based on a frequency with which one or more eNodeBs of the at least one tracking area was used by the UE to actively communicate with the communication network; and sending an additional page request to at least one eNodeB of each tracking area of the identified set of at least one tracking area to flood.