Patent ID: 8611933

Claim:
A method for communicating, by a multi-mode mobile station (MS), with first and second networks via first and second radio access technologies (RATs), comprising: determining, at the MS, a first set of one or more paging parameters, the first set of one or more paging parameters comprising a paging cycle parameter and a paging offset parameter from a set of paging offset parameters for which a paging interval of the first network does not conflict with a paging interval of the second network; communicating the first set of paging parameters from the MS to a base station of the first network in a deregistration request to establish the paging interval of the first network, the deregistration request including a period of the paging cycle parameter, the paging offset parameter, and a bit indicating whether the period of the paging cycle parameter and the paging offset parameter are mandatory; and tuning a radio frequency (RF) chain of the MS to decode paging signals in the paging interval from the base station of the first network.