Patent ID: 7228144

Claim:
A User Equipments [UE] configured for use in a wireless communication system where a base station implements wireless communications including paging, wherein the UE is configured with a multi-layer processing system having a configurable lowest physical layer for receiving wireless communication signals and selectively processing the received signals according to its then present configuration, the UE comprising: a physical layer processing control configured to reconfigure the physical layer such that when a paging indicator [PI] is received by the UE's physical layer in advance of corresponding paging data, the UE's physical layer L 1 is configured to process the paging data after receiving the PI; a physical layer buffer within the UE's physical layer configured to store predetermined paging data processing configuration data; and the UE's physical layer being associated with the physical layer processing control such that, when the UE's physical layer is configured to monitor for reception of a specific PI, corresponding paging data processing configuration data is stored in said physical layer buffer and the UE's physical layer is configured to access said buffer and use the stored data to reconfigure itself upon receiving and processing the specific PI.