Patent ID: 8351962

Claim:
An apparatus for paging a mobile device within a mobile pool area serviced by two or more mobile switching nodes, said mobile pool area including a plurality of location areas, said apparatus comprising: means for receiving, from a Home Location Register, a paging area indicator identifying a logical paging area for paging said mobile device at a new mobile switching node of said two or more mobile switching nodes after a restart of a serving mobile switching node of said two or more mobile switching nodes serving said mobile device, said logical paging area including at least two of said location areas but less than all of said location areas within said mobile pool area, said paging area indicator being a logical mobile switching node address identifying both said serving mobile switching node and said logical paging area; means for receiving a mobile terminated call for said mobile device at said new mobile switching node; and means for paging said mobile device, by said new mobile switching node, in order to deliver said mobile terminated call to said mobile device.