Patent ID: 7940710

Claim:
A method for monitoring a paging channel, the method comprising: monitoring, by an access terminal, a first paging channel for a page message at scheduled paging slots having a page period, wherein the first paging channel corresponds to a first access point in an active set of the access terminal; monitoring a second paging channel for a second page message at second scheduled paging slots having a second page period; determining that an error has occurred by identifying a failure to monitor both the page message at a given paging slot in the first paging channel and the second page message at a second given paging slot in the second paging channel; and monitoring one of the first paging channel and the second paging channel, based on determining the error has occurred and while in a first mode, for a re-page message at least one scheduled re-paging slot having a fast page period different from the page period and the second page period, the at least one re-paging slot occurring after the given paging slot and the given second paging slot but before the next scheduled paging slot and second paging slot according to the page period, wherein the second paging channel corresponds to at least one other access point in the active set.