Patent ID: 8626204

Claim:
A method of operating a wireless access system, the method comprising: exchanging wireless communications with a plurality of user devices using a first communication mode that uses a first frequency spectrum and a second communication mode that uses a second frequency spectrum; transferring a first bit sequence using the first communication mode to a first set of the user devices to indicate the presence of first pages pending on a paging channel portion of the first communication mode; transferring a second bit sequence using the second communication mode to a second set of the user devices to indicate the presence of second pages pending on a paging channel portion of the second communication mode, wherein the second set of the of user devices tune away from the first communication mode to the second communication mode to receive the second bit sequence; and configuring a third set of the of user devices to tune away from the first communication mode to the second communication mode to check for the presence of third pages pending on the paging channel portion of the second communication mode, without checking for the presence of the third pages using the first bit sequence or the second bit sequence.