Patent ID: 8121655
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for lengthening the battery life of a mobile station, comprising: selecting an alert mode associated with a mobile station, the alert mode including at least one of: silent alert, vibrate and manual answer; detecting the alert mode of the mobile station; providing a programmable alert mode having an unlikely to answer mode including a longer paging interval when there is indicia present that it is unlikely that a user will answer and having a likely to answer mode including a shorter paging interval when there is indicia present that it is likely that a user will desire to answer; and increasing a length of a paging cycle in order to conserve power of an energy storage device associated with the mobile station, when in the unlikely to answer mode, wherein the mobile station includes a ring tone volume setting and a first higher ring tone volume threshold and a second lower ring tone volume threshold, configured such that: (i) in the event the ring tone volume is set below the second lower ring tone volume threshold, than the length of the paging cycle is increased; (ii) in the event the ring tone volume is set between the thresholds, the length of the paging cycle is adjusted to an intermediate interval; and (iii) in the event the ring tone volume is set above both thresholds, the length of the paging cycle is adjusted to a shorter paging interval.