Patent ID: 8249640

Claim:
A method for determining a paging slot of a CDMA mobile station trunking service, the method comprising: when the mobile station supports minus slot function: if a system identifier and a network identifier of a base station do not match with any one in a system identifier and a network identifier list stored in the mobile station, the mobile station calculating a paging slot according to a slot cycle index which is a value not more than the smaller of a max slot cycle index and 1; otherwise, if the mobile station receives minus slot paging cycle information on a paging channel overhead message, and the mobile station has stored a piece of minus slot paging cycle information, the mobile station calculating the paging slot by obtaining a minimal value from a max PTT slot cycle index, a PTT slot cycle index, the max slot cycle index, and a slot cycle index; if the mobile station receives the minus slot paging cycle information on the paging channel overhead message, but the mobile station has not stored a piece of the minus slot paging cycle information, the mobile station calculating the paging slot by obtaining a minimal value from the max PTT slot cycle index, the max slot cycle index, and the slot cycle index; if the mobile station does not receive the minus slot paging cycle information on the paging channel overhead message, but the mobile station has stored a piece of the minus slot paging cycle information, the mobile station calculating the paging slot by obtaining a minimal value from the PTT slot cycle index, the max slot cycle index, and the slot cycle index; and if the mobile station does not receive the minus slot paging cycle information on the paging channel overhead message, and the mobile station has not stored a piece of the minus slot paging cycle information, the mobile station calculating the paging slot by obtaining a minimal value from the max slot cycle index and the slot cycle index; and when the mobile station does not support the minus slot function: if the system identifier and the network identifier of the base station do not match with any one in the system identifier and the network identifier list stored in the mobile station, the mobile station selecting a value not more than the smaller of the max slot cycle index and 1 as the slot cycle index, otherwise the mobile station using the slot cycle index not more than the slot cycle index.