Patent ID: 8224356

Claim:
A method for paging a wireless communication device in a wireless telecommunications system comprising: transmitting a quick page message via a first, less encoded channel, said quick page message notifying the wireless terminal to begin monitoring a second highly encoded channel for a full page message; transmitting a full page message via said second channel; wherein processing said second channel includes encoding through a convolutional encoder, interleaving through an interleaver, and adding cyclic redundancy check through a cyclic redundancy check circuit to said full page message, wherein said quick page message contains less data bits than said full page message, such that the amount of processing to process said quick page message is substantially less than for the full page message in the wireless communication device; wherein said wireless communication device is a particular wireless communication device included within a set of wireless communication devices in said wireless communication system; wherein said set of wireless communication devices includes a plurality of wireless terminals; wherein said quick page message is for directing said set of wireless communication devices to monitor said second channel for said full page message; wherein said full page message identifies said particular wireless communication device among said set of wireless communication devices; wherein said transmitting said quick page message is during a first time slot assigned to the set of wireless communication devices; wherein said transmitting said full page message is during a second time slot assigned to the set of wireless communication devices, wherein said second time slot is assigned to said first time slot by way of having a determined time delay between said first and second time slots; wherein said second time slot occurs after said first time slot.