Patent ID: 8320398

Claim:
A method of operating a first wireless terminal for communicating paging messages directly with a second wireless terminal in a peer-to-peer network, comprising: obtaining a reference signal from a signal source; determining a reference time instant from the obtained reference signal; deriving starting time instants of a sequence of paging intervals as a function of the reference time instant; and monitoring during the sequence of paging intervals for a paging message directly sent by a peer, wherein monitoring during the sequence of paging intervals further comprises: determining a first subset of times during a particular paging interval in the sequence of paging intervals as a function of an identifier of the first wireless terminal; and monitoring the first subset of times during the particular paging interval for the paging message directly sent by the peer, wherein the method further comprises transmitting a disparate paging message to a disparate peer rather than monitoring for the paging message during the first subset of times when an urgency is above a threshold, the urgency being associated with paging the disparate peer when the first subset of times coincides with a second subset of times.