Patent ID: 8755808

Claim:
A method for paging policy adaptation, the method comprising: paging devices according to a first paging policy regarding paging attempts; determining that a reduced availability condition exists for network equipment supporting the first paging policy; paging a UE (user equipment) according to an adapted paging policy while the reduced availability condition exists, wherein the adapted paging policy is more limited in paging attempts than the first paging policy; wherein determining that a reduced availability condition exists for network equipment supporting the first paging policy comprises determining that a network node supporting the first paging policy is overloaded; wherein paging the UE according to an adapted paging policy comprises at least one of when the UE was last seen at the overloaded network node, making one page attempt to page the UE at the overloaded network node and making no additional attempts to page the UE at any other network nodes or when the UE was not last seen at the overloaded network node, making at least one page attempt to page the UE while excepting the overloaded network node from the at least one page attempt.