Patent ID: 8902800

Claim:
A method of operating an access point, the method comprising: receiving information for broadcast to wireless communications devices from a first wireless communications device in an uplink communications resource while said first wireless communications device is operating in a sleep state with respect to the access point, said uplink communications resource being dedicated to the first wireless communications device, said uplink communications resource being an air link resource for which there is a corresponding dedicated broadcast downlink resource dedicated to said first wireless communications device; processing the received information; and transmitting the received information for broadcast to wireless communications devices in said corresponding dedicated broadcast downlink resource, wherein said first uplink communications resource is part of a set of dedicated resources corresponding to an expression advertisement interval and includes one OFDM tone for a predetermined fixed number of OFDM symbol transmission time intervals, wherein said dedicated broadcast downlink resource is a downlink communications resource in a set of dedicated resources corresponding to an expression broadcast interval corresponding to said expression advertisement interval, and wherein the received information for broadcast to mobile wireless entities includes a device identifier identifying the first wireless communications device.