Patent ID: 9001723
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of managing broadcast of notifications indicating whether system information has changed, the notifications being provided over in a coverage area from a base station to wireless communication devices (WCDs), wherein the coverage area supports a plurality of different wakeup cycles each respectively defining periodically recurring time units, wherein the wakeup cycles are the same duration as each other but are not aligned in time with each other, the method comprising: monitoring, separately for each wakeup cycle of the plurality of wakeup cycles that are the same duration as each other but are not aligned in time with each other, variation in system information occurring between time units of the wakeup cycle; and broadcasting, respectively in a next time unit of each wakeup cycle, an indication of whether system information has changed since a latest time unit of the wakeup cycle, wherein the indication is based on the monitoring carried out separately for the wakeup cycle.