Patent ID: 8892091

Claim:
A communication device comprising: a message generator configured to generate a message indicating that a mobile terminal should provide data from which information about the configuration of the mobile terminal for the reception of paging messages is derivable, wherein the message indicates that the mobile terminal should provide a value of a paging parameter used by the mobile terminal to receive paging messages, the paging parameter to be a Paging Indicator Channel (PICH) frame to Secondary Common Control Physical Channel (S-CCPCH) frame association offsets, Downlink Control Information (DCI) format used on Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH), Discontinuous Reception (DRX) information, paging frame calculation information, paging occasion information, or Long Term Evolution (LTE) Paging-Message content information; wherein the DRX information includes at least one of configuration settings in the mobile terminal associated with DRX and DRX status at a time of paging, the paging frame calculation information includes at least one of an input parameter used by the mobile terminal for paging frame calculation and a calculation result associated with a paging frame applied in the mobile terminal, the paging occasion information includes at least one of an input parameter used by the mobile terminal for paging occasion calculation and a calculation result associated with a paging occasion applied in the mobile terminal, and the LTE Paging-Message content information includes at least one of a number of Paging Records in the Paging-Message, an identity of the mobile terminal used by a network to address the mobile terminal, a core network (CN) domain indicator, and a paging cause associated with the Paging-Message; and a transmitter configured to transmit the message.