Patent ID: 7630701
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method to manage processing operations following a wireless terminal receiving a null page from a servicing base station, the method comprises: receiving an encoded paging burst on a paging channel; decoding the encoded paging burst to produce a decoded paging burst; determining that the decoded paging burst contains a null page for the wireless terminal; consolidating a plurality of staggered processing operations associated with receiving a plurality of subsequent encoded paging bursts when the decoded paging burst contains the null page for the wireless terminal; performing the consolidated plurality of staggered processing operations as a group following the null page; and after the consolidated plurality of staggered processing operations is performed during an awake period, entering a sleep mode for a sleep mode period that is adjacent to and follows the awake period; and after receipt of one of the plurality of subsequent encoded paging bursts during a subsequent awake period, entering a subsequent sleep mode period that is adjacent to and follows the subsequent awake period, wherein a length of the subsequent sleep mode period is longer than a length of the sleep mode period and a length of the subsequent awake period is shorter than a length of the awake period.