Patent ID: 6795425
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
A method of communicating in a wireless communications system that is operative to communicate over a physical channel defined as a series of repeating time slots, the method comprising the steps of:transmitting a paging attribute descriptor (PAD) in at least one of a first time slot of the physical channel and a second time slot of the physical channel succeeding the first time slot, the PAD indicating content of a page message; transmitting the page message in the second time slot; recovering the PAD at a wireless station; and determining whether to recover the page message based on the recovered PAD; wherein said step of transmitting a PAD comprises the step of transmitting a first signal representing the PAD in a time slot preceding a time slot assigned to a paging channel; and wherein said step of transmitting a page message comprises the step of transmitting a second signal representing the page message in the time slot assigned to the paging channel; wherein said step of receiving comprises the step of receiving the first and second signals at the wireless station; and wherein said step of recovering the PAD comprises the step of recovering the PAD from the received first signal.