Patent ID: 8615260

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless communications device, comprising operations of: responsive to wakeup from a reduced power sleep state, performing operations including: receiving a call-paging message and one instance of a broadcast-paging message that occurs multiple times for each instance of the call-paging message, evaluating signal metrics of one or more prescribed signals received at the wireless communications device, and receiving as many additional instances of the broadcast-paging message as dictated by results of the signal metrics evaluation; wherein evaluating the signal metrics of the one or more prescribed signals received at the wireless communications device comprises one from the group consisting of: evaluating a raw power arriving in a radio frequency (RF) band upon which the wireless communications device communicates; evaluating a raw power of a network transmitted common pilot signal; evaluating a signal-to-noise ratio of a common pilot signal; evaluating a signal-to-noise ratio of the call-paging message; and evaluating a signal-to-noise ratio of the broadcast-paging message.