Patent ID: 8923178

Claim:
A method for managing a receiver for user equipment (UE) in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, comprising: receiving within a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) resource region of a first sub-frame, a message addressed to an Identifier (ID) associated with a group of user equipments (UEs), the message containing wake-up indicators for more than one of the UEs within the group of UEs, and a UE receiver is activated for between one and four Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols within the PDCCH resource region of the first sub-frame and at least partially deactivated for one or more of the remaining OFDM symbols of the first sub-frame; and receiving, based on the message, at least a portion of a second sub-frame, the second sub-frame occurring at a different time than the first sub-frame.