Patent ID: 8571582

Claim:
A method implemented by a mobility management entity (MME) computing device, the method comprising: monitoring, by the computing device, wireless network connections between user equipment and base stations; predicting, by the computing device and based on the monitoring by the computing device, serving base stations for user equipment for multiple particular time periods, where the predicting includes: identifying particular days and times when the user equipment is consistently attached to a first base station, and identifying different particular days and times when the user equipment is consistently attached to a second base station; generating, by the computing device and based on the predicting by the computing device, a paging list associating particular user equipment with particular serving base stations for the multiple particular time periods; receiving, by the computing device and at a particular time, instructions to send a page to the particular user equipment; determining, by the computing device and based on one of the multiple particular time periods of the paging list, if the particular user equipment is associated with one of the particular serving base stations for the particular time; and sending, by the computing device and when the paging list indicates that the particular user equipment is associated with one of the particular serving base stations for the particular time, the page to the particular user equipment via the one of the particular serving base stations.