Patent ID: 7787892

Claim:
A method for detecting paging indicators through a paging channel for removing a mobile terminal from an idle mode in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a first paging indicator (I 1 ); determining whether a first indicator measurement (x 1 ) corresponding to the first paging indicator is between a first and a second thresholds (t 1 and t 2 respectively) wherein t 1 indicates a boundary for tolerating a miss call and t 2 indicates a boundary for tolerating a false alarm; receiving a second paging indicator (I 2 ) which is a temporal diversity counterpart of the first paging indicator; and comparing a second indicator measurement (x 3 ) derived based on both the first and second paging indicators against a third threshold (t 3 ), wherein the mobile terminal is removed from the idle mode when x 1 is between t 1 and t 2 , and x 3 is larger than t 3 , wherein t 1 and t 2 are derived based on signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) corresponding to the first and second paging indicators respectively, and t 3 is derived based on SNR corresponding to both the first and second paging indicators, wherein the indicator measurements and the SNR based thresholds are adaptive to variations of channel conditions and predetermined configurations of the paging channel.