Patent ID: 8125937

Claim:
A packet-based wireless communication system, comprising: a radio access network possessing at least one radio network controller coupled to at least one base transceiver station configured into at least one dynamically-adjustable paging zone; said radio network controller transmits both a page message and an application data packet to at least one base transceiver station, with all base transceiver stations within the dynamically-adjustable paging zone receiving the page message and application data packet, which then broadcast the page message and buffer the application data packet, said dynamically-adjustable paging zone reduces the size of the paging zone by reducing the number of sectors that transmit the application data packet based on the users that are authorized to use certain applications, predetermined time periods, or the applications that can be supported on a particular paging zone; and one of said base transceiver stations receives a response to said page message and transmits the application data packet in response.