Patent ID: 7787826

Claim:
A method that facilitates transitioning between wireless terminal states, comprising: utilizing a first state whereby the wireless terminal utilizes all segments comprising a beaconslot of a tone of an uplink dedicated control channel (DCCH) to transmit control information; transitioning from the first state to a split-tone on state whereby the wireless terminal utilizes an assigned subset of the segments composing the beaconslot to transmit the control information to reduce power consumption associated with the wireless terminal, the subset being less than a total number of segments comprising the beaconslot; and utilizing the split-tone on state; wherein the first state is a hold state and the wireless terminal directly transitions from the hold state to the split-tone on state; wherein the split-tone on state is associated with at least one of a rate related to the uplink dedicated control channel greater than a rate associated with the hold state and or a rate of power control greater than that of the hold state.