Patent ID: 8265660

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving into a wireless telephone network a request to connect a new call to a mobile station served by the network; upon receipt of the request, the network detecting that the mobile station is currently in a first state selected from the group consisting of an access state and a paging state, wherein when the mobile station is in the first state, the network does not transmit to the mobile station a notification of the new call and a user of the mobile station therefore does not have an option to take the new call; and responsive to detecting that the mobile station is currently in the first state upon receipt of the request, the network waiting until the mobile station has transitioned out of the first state and into a traffic state and, once the mobile station has transitioned to the traffic state, the network then transmitting to the mobile station a notification of the new call, to facilitate providing the user of the mobile station with an option to take the new call.