Patent ID: 7796547

Claim:
A method for notifying mobile stations in an inactive state of information transmitted in a frame, comprising the acts of: determining whether particular broadcast information will be transmitted in the frame; determining whether information for at least one of the mobile stations in the inactive state will be transmitted in the frame; forming an information element notifying mobile stations in the inactive state whether the particular broadcast information or the information for the at least one of the mobile stations in the inactive state will be transmitted in the frame; and broadcasting the information element in a downlink portion of the frame, wherein the at least one of the mobile stations in the inactive state is in an idle mode, and the information for the mobile station in the idle mode is information related to a paging message, or the at least one of the mobile stations in the inactive state is in a sleep mode, and the information for the mobile station in the sleep mode is information related to a traffic channel assignment.