Patent ID: 7555302

Claim:
A method for paging a wireless terminal in a wireless telecommunications system comprising: transmitting a quick page message via a first encoded channel, said quick page message notifying the wireless terminal to begin monitoring a second encoded channel for a full page message, wherein said first encoded channel is less encoded than said second encoded channel; transmitting a full page message via said second encoded channel; wherein said second encoded channel includes more processing than said first encoded channel, wherein said more processing includes encoding through an encoder, interleaving through an interleaver, and adding cyclic redundancy check through a cyclic redundancy check circuit to said full page message; wherein said wireless terminal is a particular wireless terminal included within a set of wireless terminals in said wireless communication system; wherein said quick page message is for directing said set of wireless terminals to monitor said second encoded channel for said full page message; wherein said quick page message contains less data bits than said full page message; wherein said full page message identifies said particular wireless terminal among said set of wireless terminals; wherein said transmitting said quick page message is during a first time slot assigned to the set of wireless terminals; wherein said transmitting said full page message is during a second time slot assigned to the set of wireless terminals; wherein said second time slot is assigned to said first time slot by way of having a determined time delay between said first and second time slots; wherein said second time slot occurs after said first time slot; wherein said quick page message is comprised of a single bit of data, wherein said single bit of data transmitted via said first encoded channel is modulated multiple times by the same code, effectively transmitting the bit multiple times in said transmitting said quick page message, and wherein the set of wireless terminals assigned to said first paging slot changes over time to ensure that each wireless terminal is associated with a different set of other wireless terminals during each first paging slot, wherein different sets of wireless terminals are assigned to different first paging slots, and wherein a group of said first paging slots are assigned to a single second paging slot, said group of said first paging slots forming a quick page period beginning a fixed time before the beginning of the second paging slot.