Patent ID: 7898983

Claim:
A method, the method comprising operating a first communications device to perform the steps of: updating a list of active connection identifiers to include a first active connection identifier corresponding to a second communications device from which a first paging signal was received, said list of active connection identifiers listing connection identifiers of communications devices from which said first communications device has received a paging signal or sent a paging signal; updating said list of active connection identifiers to include a second active connection identifier corresponding to a third communications device to which said first communications device transmitted a second paging signal; monitoring a traffic control resource during a traffic interval for a traffic request signal corresponding to at least one active connection identifier included in said list of active connection identifiers; and determining if said active connection identifier is no longer valid includes detecting expiration of a time out trigger, said time out trigger being a function of signals sent to the communications device corresponding to said active connection identifier or received from said communication device correspond to said active connection identifier.