Patent ID: 8768384

Claim:
A method comprising: a radio access network (RAN) transmitting a set of paging messages to a wireless communication device (WCD) via a primary paging channel and a secondary paging channel, both of a wireless coverage area, wherein the RAN maintains a page success rate for the WCD; based on the page success rate, determining that the WCD has not responded to at least one of the set of paging messages; in response to determining that the WCD has not responded to the at least one of the set of paging messages, the RAN (i) transmitting a first command to the WCD to instruct the WCD to refrain from using the secondary paging channel while the WCD is associated with the wireless coverage area, and (ii) while the WCD is associated with the wireless coverage area, transmitting one or more paging messages to the WCD via only the primary paging channel; detecting a handoff of the WCD to a new wireless coverage area of the RAN; and in response to detecting the handoff, (i) transmitting a second command to the WCD to instruct the WCD to use both the primary paging channel and the secondary paging channel, and (ii) thereafter, transmitting two or more paging messages to the WCD via the primary paging channel and the secondary paging channel.