Patent ID: 8032160

Claim:
A method for receiving a paging signal in a data frame from a base station, the frame defined by a communication protocol as having a group of sequential time slots being data transfer periods within the frame, comprising: receiving a paging signal at a mobile user terminal in a sub-period of a data transfer period of a data frame as defined by the communication protocol; receiving a repetition of the paging signal in a different sub-period of the data frame to provide different spatial signatures between the paging signal and the repetition of the paging signal, wherein the repetition is one of one or more repetitions, where the number of repetitions is based on estimation of proximity of the mobile user terminal to the base station, the estimation based on data sent from the mobile user terminal to the base station in a negotiation sequence; and processing the paging signal and the repetition of the paging signal to obtain paging data.