Patent ID: 8996043
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: a radio access network (RAN) determining that a wireless communication device (WCD) should be paged in a coverage area of the RAN; determining a codec that was last assigned to the WCD in the coverage area; using the last-assigned codec as a basis for adjusting a paging process that is used to page the WCD, wherein using the last-assigned codec as a basis for adjusting the paging process that is used to page the WCD comprises, based at least in part on the last-assigned codec, determining a page-concatenation level; and paging the WCD according to the adjusted-paging process, wherein paging the WCD according to the adjusted paging process comprises concatenating a page to the WCD according to the determined page-concatenation level.