Patent ID: 8526976

Claim:
A paging method in a radio access network, the method comprising: before a transmission of a general page message (GPM) that is formatted to include up to a maximum number of page records, making a determination that less than the maximum number of page records are scheduled to be included in the GPM; in response to the determination that less than the maximum number of page records are scheduled to be included in the GPM, selecting, from one or more page records that are scheduled to be included in the GPM, at least one page record for which to include two or more instances in the GPM, wherein the selecting of the at least one page record for which to include two or more instances in the GPM is based at least in part on a comparison of page-types of the scheduled page records; and transmitting the GPM, wherein two or more instances of the at least one selected page record are included in the transmission of the GPM.