Patent ID: 8811989

Claim:
A method of a machine-to-machine (M2M) device receiving a paging message in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: monitoring paging messages in a paging frame during a paging listening interval, the paging messages including a group paging message and an individual paging message; receiving one of the group paging message and the individual paging message from a base station (BS); continuing to monitor the paging messages in the paging frame during the paging listening interval; and receiving the other of the group paging message and the individual paging message from the BS, wherein the M2M device is a mobile M2M device to which a deregistration identifier (DID) is assigned, and wherein the paging frame is determined according to the equation: Paging frame=(DID of the M2M device)modulo m, where m is indicated by the BS using a paging group information message (PGID-Info message).