Patent ID: 8811979

Claim:
A method used in a wireless communication network for providing a private information to a mobile user, the method comprising: paging a mobile station of the mobile user via a paging channel during a paging period to read the private information; and reading the private information by the mobile station via a non-dedicated channel during a reading period after the paging period, wherein the non-dedicated channel is a new channel allocated for transmitting the private information, and whereby the use of the non-dedicated channel saves power and reduces bandwidth; wherein the non-dedicated channel is the paging channel; wherein the private information is specific to the mobile user and for personal usage; wherein the private information is embedded in a paging message which is sent to the mobile station via the paging channel during the second paging DRX cycle; wherein, when there is a private information to be provided to the mobile user, the wireless communication network generates a modified paging message, where the modified paging message containing a new paging cause “Terminating private information” used for informing the mobile station to read the private information; and then, the wireless communication network pages the mobile station by sending the modified paging message via the paging channel during the paging period, so as to inform the mobile station to read the private information from the wireless communication network; and wherein the mobile station operates in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, the paging period is a paging DRX cycle; the reading period is another paging DRX cycle after the paging DRX cycle.