Patent ID: 9265025
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented by a mobile station that is configured for use in a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) network and that belongs to a paging group, the method comprising: monitoring, by the mobile station, a paging channel of the GSM network transmitted for said paging group with a monitoring interval that comprises a defined number of GSM superframes or GSM hyperframes of a common control channel on which the paging channel is mapped; when registering with the GSM network, sending classification information to or receiving classification information from a node in the GSM network, the classification information directly or indirectly classifying the mobile station as a mobile station that monitors the paging channel of a paging group with said monitoring interval; and after registering with the GSM network, renegotiating the length of said monitoring interval.