Patent ID: 8320922

Claim:
A wireless subscriber station for use with an access network, the wireless subscriber station comprising: an input device; a processor including: a guard timer configured to start in response to a first selection of a first broadcast channel and to restart in response to a second selection of a second broadcast channel made before the guard timer expires from the first selection, the second broadcast channel being different than the first broadcast channel, both the first selection and the second selection being made at the wireless subscriber station from the input device; a registration timer configured to generate a first request to register the first broadcast channel in response to expiration of the registration timer started upon expiration of the guard timer, if the guard timer expires before being restarted by the second selection; and an analog front end configured to transmit the first request to the access network and to select a paging channel to monitor, the paging channel identified according to the first request and specific to the first broadcast channel.