Patent ID: 8824305

Claim:
A method of communication, comprising: determining, at an access point, whether an access terminal served by the access point is operating in a first mode or a second mode, wherein in the first mode the access terminal is to be paged for unicast and non-unicast packets and in the second mode the access terminal is to be paged only for unicast packets, and wherein an election by the access terminal of the first mode or the second mode is based on whether an application has been initiated in the access terminal that requires access to a local service; receiving a packet destined for the access terminal at the access point; determining a packet type of the received packet, wherein the packet type indicates whether the received packet is a unicast or a non-unicast packet; and determining, based on the determined type and the determination of whether the access terminal is operating in the first mode or the second mode, whether to page the access terminal as a result of the receipt of the packet.