Patent ID: 9560492
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for allocating an identification (ID) to a terminal device to facilitate group paging, comprising: receiving, by a network device, a group ID for the terminal device, wherein the group ID corresponds to a group of group-paged objects in a cell supported by an access network device, wherein the group ID is allocated by a core network device, and wherein the group of group-paged objects comprises one or more subgroups; allocating, by the network device, a device ID or a user ID for the terminal device, wherein the device ID or the user ID comprises information of a subgroup ID of a subgroup to which the terminal device belongs; and sending, by the network device, the allocated device ID or user ID to the terminal device; wherein the number of subgroups of the one or more subgroups is determined by the network device according to the number of the terminal devices belonging to the group of group-paged objects and the subgroup sizes of the one or more subgroups, wherein the subgroup sizes of the one or more subgroups are determined by: