Patent ID: 8260327

Claim:
A system comprising: a location area; a plurality of cells in the location area; a predefined number of paging areas in the location area; a paging system; a memory including a plurality of indicators ordered in a set, wherein the set of indicators is associated with a mobile terminal location; wherein, for each one of the indicators in the set of indicators, there is one associated cell of the plurality of cells, and wherein an indicator associated with a cell represents the probability that the mobile terminal location is within the associated cell; wherein the paging system is configured to assign cells of the plurality of cells to the number of paging areas in an order related to the order of the indicators within the set of indicators, and wherein the paging system assigns at least one cell of the plurality of cells in the location area to each paging area; and wherein the paging system broadcasts a message to a sequence of the paging areas, and wherein the message broadcast sequence is related to the order in which the paging system assigned cells to the paging areas.