Patent ID: 8009603

Claim:
A method for monitoring access terminals in a wireless communications network comprising a plurality of wireless cells, said method comprising: sending a quick page (QP) configuration message in a first broadcasting channel; sending a regular page (RP) configuration message in said first broadcasting channel; sending a QP message in a second broadcasting channel, said second broadcasting channel configured to send said QP message in a single frequency network (SFN) mode; sending a page forward link assignment message (PFLAM) in each sector of a group of sectors making up at least a part of each one of said plurality of wireless cells, said PFLAM including a resource assignment message assigning an RP channel, wherein each of said PFLAMs is sent according to a time-frequency resource defined by said each sector; and transmitting an RP message on said RP channel using a same time-frequency resource in said each sector of said group of sectors.