Patent ID: 8503308

Claim:
A page routing system wherein a wireless communication network comprises a plurality of paging zones and each of the paging zones comprises a plurality of sectors, the page routing system comprising: a communication transceiver configured to transmit pages to the paging zones for delivery to wireless communication devices located in the sectors and to receive page responses from the paging zones that were transferred by the wireless communication devices located in the sectors; a processing system configured to determine page utilization for each of the paging zones and to track the page responses per-sector for each of the wireless communication devices; the processing system configured to receive a new page for one of the wireless communication devices in one of the paging zones, and if the page utilization for the one paging zone exceeds a zone threshold, then to select a target one of the sectors in the one paging zone for page delivery based on the page responses per-sector for the one wireless communication device; and the processing system configured to transfer the new page indicating the target sector to the one paging zone, wherein the one paging zone responsively transfers the new page to the target sector for delivery to the one wireless communication device.