Patent ID: 9591613
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for paging a user equipment, the method comprising: obtaining a location history of the user equipment, the location history including at least one location of the user equipment and a corresponding age of the location of the user equipment; obtaining a mobility pattern of the user equipment, the mobility pattern indicating one of a plurality of mobility categories, the plurality of mobility categories including a stationary pattern, a toggling pattern and a moving pattern; determining a probability level for the at least one location of the user equipment based on the mobility pattern and the location history, the probability level indicating a level of confidence that the user equipment is at the at least one location; and deriving a paging range based on the probability level, the paging range having one of a plurality of paging scopes, the plurality of paging scopes including at least one of a group consisting of a single node, a plurality of nodes, a tracking area and a plurality of tracking areas; wherein the probability level increases as at least one of a size of one or more past locations, the age of the location, and the mobility pattern of the user equipment decreases.