Patent ID: 8014798

Claim:
A method for facilitating access terminal paging, said method comprising: ordering a first group of identities that includes at least a first identity and a second identity, wherein a value of a first additional identity bit can be determined based upon an order of the first identity and the second identity in an access terminal paging message; ordering the first group of identities and at least a second group of identities, wherein a value of a second additional identity bit can be determined based upon an order of the first group and the second group in the access terminal paging message; structuring the access terminal paging message to include the first group of identities, ordered by said ordering, and the second group of identities, wherein the order of the first group of identities conveys the value of the first additional identity bit and the order of the first group and the second group conveys the value of the second additional identity bit; and causing the access terminal paging message to be transmitted by a network infrastructure element of an access network.