Patent ID: 8457092

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable media including computer readable instructions that may be utilized by one or more processors, the instructions comprising: instructions for determining presence of a scheduled message for an access terminal; instructions for setting a quick paging bit from a plurality of quick paging bits in a quick paging block, the quick paging bit corresponding to the access terminal; instructions for compressing the quick paging block to generate a compressed quick paging block; instructions for encoding the compressed quick paging block to generate an encoded quick paging packet; instructions for generating at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbol having at least a portion of the encoded quick paging block; and instructions for transmitting the at least one OFDM symbol, wherein the instructions for compressing the quick paging block comprises: instructions for determining a number of asserted quick paging bits from the plurality of quick paging bits; and instructions for generating successive fields indicating positions of the asserted quick paging bits within the quick paging block if the number of asserted bits is less than a predetermined amount.