Patent ID: 8712446

Claim:
A method comprising: maintaining a list of priority levels, wherein each of the priority levels is associated with a group of at least one access point and wherein maintaining the list of priority levels includes grouping a plurality of access points with one of the list of priority levels based on a weight of each of the plurality of access points; initializing a current priority level from the list of priority levels, wherein the current priority level is a highest priority level, further wherein the highest priority level is associated with the group of at least one access point having a highest range of weights associated with group of at least one access point, the weight of an access point being incremented when mobility is observed to the access point, the mobility including connected mode mobility and idle mode mobility; sending a paging signal to the at least one access point in a group associated with the current priority level; determining whether a page response is received from the at least one access point in the group associated with the current priority level; updating the group associated with the current priority level; and assigning a next priority level in the list of priority levels as the current priority level when no page response is received from the at least one access point in the group associated with the current priority level.