Patent ID: 7986955

Claim:
A user equipment (UE) comprising: a hierarchy of processing layers including a configurable lowest physical layer (L1) and a next lowest level (L2); the L1 having a first configuration configured to receive and decode a paging indicator (PI) in a given PI channel (PICH); the L2 having a buffer and a controller configured to control L1; the L1 in the first configuration configured to send a decoded PI that identifies a paging channel PCH in which a page for the UE will be transmitted to the L2; and the L2 configured to reconfigure the L1 into a second configuration, in response to receiving a decoded PI from the L1, based on instructions stored in the L2 buffer such that in the second configuration the L1 is configured to process paging data to be received on the PCH identified by the decoded PI.