Patent ID: 8213449
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: providing service to a plurality of access terminals in a wireless coverage area; receiving data respectively addressed to at least some of the access terminals, and responsively (i) generating pages for transmission in the wireless coverage area and (ii) adding the generated pages to a back of a queue, the queue being ordered from a front to the back, wherein each such page comprises information to alert a given access terminal as to the receipt of data addressed to the given access terminal and to cause the given access terminal to request a traffic channel for conducting a packet flow; determining which pages in the queue are latency-sensitive pages respectively associated with latency-sensitive packet flows, and which pages in the queue are latency-tolerant pages respectively associated with latency-tolerant packet flows, and responsively associating a respective aging value with any latency-tolerant pages, wherein each aging value is initialized to a starting value; and transmitting the pages in the queue over a control channel in the wireless coverage area, wherein transmitting the pages in the queue over the control channel in the wireless coverage area comprises: