Patent ID: 8797933

Claim:
A mobile communication device, comprising: a wireless device performing wireless transceiving to and from a service network; and a controller device receiving, on a paging channel, a first part of a plurality of symbols in a frame of a time slot via the wireless device, determining to enter a standby mode in response to the first part of the symbols being equal to the same amount of symbols which comprise only a fraction of a null General Paging Message (GPM), receiving subsequent symbols in the frame in response to the first part of the symbols not being equal to the same amount of symbols which comprise only the fraction of the null GPM, and stopping the receiving of subsequent symbols in the frame by deactivating the wireless device in response to entering the standby mode, wherein the first part of the symbols comprises only a fraction of the frame, and wherein the controller device further enters the standby mode in response to successfully generating the frame right after decoding the first part of the symbols, and receives a second part of the symbols subsequent to the first part of the symbols in the frame in response to not successfully generating the frame right after decoding the first part of the symbols, wherein decoding the second part of the symbols successfully generates the frame, and wherein the second part of the symbols comprises only another fraction of the frame.