Patent ID: 8165072

Claim:
A method, comprising: providing, from at least one base station and over an air interface, a first message during a first control cycle of a first wake-up cycle, wherein the first wake-up cycle is one of a plurality of wake-up cycles, wherein the same number of control cycles are in each of the plurality of wake-up cycles, and wherein the first message comprises information indicating that at least one idle first mobile unit is to wake up and attempt to receive a second message from said at least one base station only in the first wake-up cycle, during at least one second control cycle thereof; and providing, from said at least one base station and over the air interface, a third message during a third control cycle of the first wake-up cycle, the third message comprising information indicating that at least one idle second mobile unit is to wake up and attempt to receive the second message only in the first wake-up cycle, during said at least one second control cycle thereof.