Patent ID: 6823191
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method for use in a base station of a wireless communications system to transmit paging messages comprising the step of:generating paging messages; generating a super time slot format including a plurality of cyclically recurring super time slots to transport said paging messages to one or more of said remote wireless terminals, wherein each of said plurality of super time slots includes a plurality of time slots, each time slot intended to transport a wireless terminal paging message; selecting a first available time slot in a super time slot to transmit a paging message to a wireless terminal associated with said super time slot; resolving contention among a plurality of paging messages contending for the same time slot of a super time slot; and transmitting paging messages being transported in super time slots to one or more remote wireless terminals, wherein power consumption is reduced and latency in transmission of paging messages is reduced.