Patent ID: 7567785

Claim:
A system comprising: an omnidirectional antenna; a control block adapted to determine whether a network comprising a plurality of access points (APs) supports a paging function, and if the network does support a paging function, to associate with a paging domain comprising at least one AP; a transmit block operatively coupled to the antenna and to the control block and adapted to transmit a request for paging to one of the at least one APs; and a receiver block operatively coupled to the antenna and to the control block and adapted to receive an acknowledgment from the AP having received the paging request, and to receive a paging message including zero or more paging indication messages (PIM) during a paging interval from one or more APs within a paging group of the paging domain; wherein the transmit and receive blocks comprise components implementing a medium access control (MAC) layer and a physical (PHY) layer of a communication model, and the control block is further adapted to enter a paging mode by powering off the components implementing the MAC and PHY layers.