Patent ID: 8315235

Claim:
A method operable by a mobile station (MS) for processing a Media Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MPDU), comprising: receiving the MPDU from a base station (BS) via a receiver of the MS; determining whether the MPDU has at least one bit error; in response to the MPDU having the at least one bit error, determining whether the MPDU contains a BS broadcast paging (MOB_PAG-ADV) message; and parsing the MOB_PAG-ADV message in response to the MPDU containing a MOB_PAG-ADV message, wherein the parsing the MOB_PAG-ADV message comprises determining an action code upon determining that a number of bit errors between a portion of the MOB_PAG-ADV message and a MAC address hash associated with the MS is less than an allowable error parameter value.