Patent ID: 8244280

Claim:
Apparatus for an access network of a communication network that generates a first page message on a first paging channel, said first page message being comprised of a first fixed number of binary digits and which can be used to page wireless access terminals within the access network, each access terminal being identified by a plurality of binary digits that form a page identifier set, said apparatus comprising: a determiner configured to receive a number of page identifier sets that identify access terminals and to determine there from, a number of page value sets to be fitted into the first page message, page value sets in the first page message being comprised of portions of the received page identifier sets when two or more access terminals are to be paged, the determiner being additionally configured to determine the portion and number of binary digits of each received page identifier set to be used to form each page value set to be included in the first page message, wherein a second page value set selected to identify a second access terminal matches a first page value set selected to identify a different first access terminal and the second page value set is considered redundant to the first page value set; and a redundant page value remover configured to remove the second page value set that is redundant to the first page value set, as a result of the match, from a list of page value sets intended to be part of the first page message, thereby causing formation of the first page message free of the redundant second page value set, the first pare value set of the first pare message used to pare the different first access terminal and the second access terminal.