Patent ID: 8706145

Claim:
A method of operating a first wireless terminal for communicating paging messages directly with a second wireless terminal and a third wireless terminal in a peer-to-peer environment, comprising: receiving a first paging message from the second wireless terminal, wherein the first paging message includes an identifier identifying the first wireless terminal as a destination of the first paging message and identifiers identifying the second wireless terminal as a source terminal and the third wireless terminal as a destination terminal, the first paging message further including explicit instructions to the first wireless terminal to forward the first paging message to the third wireless terminal; determining that the first paging message is designated to be routed to the third wireless terminal based on the explicit instructions and the identifier of the third wireless terminal, the third wireless terminal being different from the first wireless terminal; and transmitting a second paging message to the third wireless terminal, the second paging message being related to the first paging message, wherein the second paging message includes the identifiers identifying the second wireless terminal as the source terminal and the third wireless terminal as the destination terminal, wherein the first, second, and third wireless terminals are peers in the peer-to-peer environment.