Patent ID: 8068859

Claim:
A method for paging a wireless terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising: transmitting a quick page message via a first channel, said quick page message notifying the wireless terminal to begin monitoring a second channel for a full page message; transmitting said full page message via said second channel; wherein said second channel includes more processing than said first channel, wherein said more processing includes encoding through an encoder, interleaving through an interleaver, and adding cyclic redundancy check through a cyclic redundancy check circuit to said full page message; wherein said wireless terminal is a particular wireless terminal included within a set of wireless terminals in said wireless communication system; wherein said quick page message is for directing said set of wireless terminals to monitor said second channel for said full page message; wherein said quick page message contains less data than said full page message; wherein said full page message identifies said particular wireless terminal among said set of wireless terminals; wherein said transmitting said quick page message occurs during a first time slot assigned to the set of wireless terminals; wherein said transmitting said full page message occurs during a second time slot assigned to the set of wireless terminals; wherein different sets of wireless terminals are assigned to different first paging slots, and wherein said first time slot is part of a group of first time slots, said group of said first time slots corresponding to said second time slot, said group of said first time slots forming a quick page period beginning a fixed time before the beginning of the second time slot.