Patent ID: 8768385

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories including computer program code, the one or more memories and the computer program code configured to, with the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform: transmitting a paging indicator indicating to user equipment assigned to one or more groups of a plurality of groups that the user equipment are to attempt to receive one or more paging messages comprising paging information targeted to at least one of the one or more groups, wherein the paging indicator is a common paging indicator for all groups of the plurality of groups, the common paging indicator indicating to any user equipment assigned to any of the groups of the plurality of groups that in addition to legacy paging the user equipment are to attempt to receive one or more paging messages comprising paging information targeted to at least one of the one or more groups; and transmitting in a channel the paging information in the one or more paging messages.