Patent ID: 7215961

Claim:
A mobile station comprising: a) a first wireless interface to access a licensed wireless communication network; b) a second wireless interface to access an unlicensed wireless communication network via an unlicensed wireless base station using an unlicensed radio frequency; c) a third interface to communicate with an unlicensed wireless network controller communicatively coupled to the base station via a broadband network; and d) circuits for handling a set of unlicensed radio resource (RR) messages transmitted over the third interface to support registering and deregistering of the mobile station to and from the unlicensed wireless communication system, wherein the set of unlicensed RR messages includes: an unlicensed register message sent by the mobile station and received at the unlicensed network controller, said unlicensed register message sent by the mobile station while located in an unlicensed region served by the unlicensed network controller for enabling the unlicensed network controller to start monitoring for paging request targeted at said mobile station.