Patent ID: 6339588
Filing Date: 2002-01-15
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
A method of CDMA communication, in which page messages are transmitted over paging channels to mobile stations, comprising the steps of:providing a page message notice channel that is different from the paging channels; generating a page message notice signal indicating whether a monitor-required page message is included in an up-coming time slot, the up-coming time slot being transmitted certain slots later than the current time slot; and transmitting the page message notice signal over the page message notice channel., wherein the page message notice signal has a plurality of information bits for each paging channel, the plurality of information bits including a first information bit that indicates whether a monitor-required page message is included in the up-coming time slot addressed to at least one mobile station in a first ID class, and a second information bit that indicates whether a monitor-required page message is included in the up-coming time slot addressed to at least one mobile station in a second ID class, and wherein the first and second ID classes correspond to CLASSâ€”0 and CLASSâ€”1 for an IMSI (International Mobile Station Identity).