Patent ID: 8014749

Claim:
A method for transmitting a preferred control channel cycle attribute in a wireless communication system characterized in that: generating the preferred control channel cycle attribute that includes an 8 bit Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, a 1 bit PreferredControlChannelCycleEnabled field, a 0 or 15 bits PreferredControlChannelCycle field, a 1 bit PreferredQuickPageEnabled field, a 0 or 15 bits PreferredRQuickPage field, a 1 bit PreferredPagingCarrierEnabled field, a 7 bits PreferredPagingCarrier field and a 0 or 7 bits Reserved field, wherein the Length field indicates a length of the preferred control channel cycle attribute in octets and the length of the Reserved field is such that a value of the preferred control channel cycle attribute is octet aligned; and transmitting the preferred control channel cycle attribute over an OFDM communication link to at least one of an access terminal or an access point.