Patent ID: 9549391
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of paging a user equipment in a radio communications network in response to data incoming to the radio communications network for delivery to the user equipment, the method comprising: determining that conditional paging is to be used for paging the user equipment in a cell in the radio communications network that is a potential cell for delivering the data to the user equipment, responsive to determining at least that the data is delay-insensitive data, wherein delay-insensitive data is tolerant of delivery delays that may arise when conditional paging is used; and responsive to determining that conditional paging is to be used in the potential cell, performing or initiating conditional paging of the user equipment in the potential cell, wherein the user equipment is or is not paged in the potential cell, in dependence on whether or not a condition associated with the potential cell is fulfilled.