Patent ID: 8326331

Claim:
A method of paging for wireless networks comprising: synchronizing a paging window clock of a server to a paging window clock of a wireless terminal operating in the wireless network; transmitting at least one parameter to the wireless terminal to derive a paging window and a dormant window for communicating between the server and the wireless terminal based at least in part on the paging window clock of the server, wherein the paging window and the dormant window are separate from a paging interval used between a base station and the wireless terminal, wherein a duration of the paging window is greater than a duration of the paging interval used between the base station and the wireless terminal, and wherein a duration of the dormant window is greater than the duration of the paging interval used between the base station and the wireless terminal; transmitting a page from the server to the wireless terminal during the paging window in the event that the server is indicated to transmit the page to the wireless terminal to wake-up circuitry of the wireless terminal to receive and respond to the page in the event that the page is transmitted to the wireless terminal in a paging period during the paging window, wherein during the dormant window the circuitry of the wireless terminal sleeps even during times that correspond to paging slots for the wireless terminal between the base station and the wireless terminal, and wherein the paging window has a duration at least as long as a duration from a start of a first paging slot to an end of a second paging slot between the wireless terminal and the server such that the paging window overlaps at least one paging slot between the wireless terminal and the base station.