Patent ID: 7031732

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a base station configured to implement wireless communications with a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs; and at least one UE configured with a multi-layer processing system having: a configurable lowest physical layer L 1 which receives wireless communication signals and selectively processes the received signals according to its then present configuration, a first higher level L 2 that includes a physical layer processing control for reconfiguring the physical layer L 1 , and a second higher layer L 3 that includes a radio resource control (RRC) for providing the L 2 physical layer processing control with paging channel parameters configured such that when a paging indicator (PI) is received by the UE in advance of corresponding paging data, the UE is configured to process the paging data after receiving the PI; said UE including a physical layer buffer within the UE's physical layer L 1 for storing predetermined paging data processing configuration data wherein the UE's physical layer L 1 is associated with the UE's L 2 physical layer processing control such that, when the UE's physical layer L 1 is configured to monitor for reception of a specific PI that is determined by the UE's RRC, corresponding paging data processing configuration data is stored in said physical layer buffer and the UE's physical layer L 1 is configured to access said buffer and use the stored data to reconfigure itself upon receiving and processing the specific PI.