Patent ID: 7177654

Claim:
A radio system, comprising: a switching and management infrastructure configured to deliver voice and data between a plurality of communicating parties; a mobile station; and a multiplicity of traffic channels, wherein each traffic channel is associated with a unique coding scheme, wherein the switching and management infrastructure is configured to receive a plurality of paging messages from a plurality of communicating parties to a plurality of paged parties, wherein the switching and management infrastructure is configured to combine the paging messages received during a pre-defined time period into a paging frame, said paging frame also comprising a multiplicity of address data blocks for identifying the plurality of paged parties to whom the paging messages in the paging frame are addressed, wherein the switching and management infrastructure is configured to encode information in the paging frame with the coding scheme of the dedicated traffic channel, and to transmit the encoded paging frame over the air interface in the dedicated traffic channel, and wherein the mobile station is configured to receive data on said at least one traffic channel, and to extract information addressed to it based on the address blocks of the paging frame.