Patent ID: 8750908

Claim:
A method of notifying an access terminal, the method comprising: determining presence of a scheduled message for the access terminal; setting a quick paging bit from a plurality of quick paging bits in a quick paging block, the quick paging bit corresponding to the access terminal; compressing the quick paging block to generate a compressed quick paging block; encoding the compressed quick paging block to generate an encoded quick paging packet; generating at least one Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbol having at least a portion of the encoded quick paging block; and transmitting the at least one OFDM symbol; wherein compressing the quick paging block comprises: determining a number of asserted quick paging bits from the plurality of quick paging bits; and generating successive fields indicating positions of the asserted quick paging bits within the quick paging block if the number of asserted bits is less than a predetermined amount.