Patent ID: 8055281

Claim:
A method for transmitting a paging message by a Base Station (BS) in a frequency overlay communication system, the method comprising: transmitting at least one of a NeighBoR-ADVertisement (NBR-ADV) message and a MulticarrierConfiguration-ADVertisement (MC-ADV) message, wherein the at least one of the NBR-ADV message and the MC-ADV message comprises frequency allocation information of the BS; determining if information is to be transmitted to a Mobile Station (MS) that is in an idle state; determining a sub frequency band for allocation to the MS using the frequency allocation information of the BS; and transmitting a paging message to the MS using the determined sub frequency band, wherein the determined sub frequency band comprises a Frequency Allocation Block (FAB) which is indicated by a value determined by a modulo operation using an FAB count of the BS, and wherein the FAB count of the BS comprises one of total FAB number of the BS and a number of FAB which the BS allocated to a paging group.