Patent ID: 9693205
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: configuring paging parameters for a group of two or more user equipment (UE) based, at least in part, on a group identifier (ID) for the group of two or more UE; communicating the paging parameters to each of the two or more UE of the group; communicating a message from a Mobility Management Entity (MME) to a serving gateway (SGW) that identifies a largest remaining time for a Tracking Area Update (TAU) timer among all of the two or more UE of the group that are in a Power Savings Mode (PSM); buffering a group message that is to be delivered to each of the two or more UE of the group in the PSM according to the identified largest remaining time; and paging any idle mode UE of the group in the PSM according to the paging parameters at expiration of the largest remaining time to transition the idle UE to a connected mode to receive the group message.