Patent ID: 7715855

Claim:
A method for operating a wireless communications device, comprising operations of: responsive to wakeup from a reduced power sleep state, performing operations comprising: detecting signal quality of one or more prescribed signals received by the wireless communications device, receiving signals including (1) scheduled network transmission of a call-paging message and (2) a first number of at least one instance of a repeating network transmitted broadcast-paging message that occurs multiple times for each scheduled transmission of the call-paging message, where the first number varies inversely with the detected signal quality; where call-paging message content indicates whether the network has received an incoming call for the device, and broadcast-paging message content indicates whether the network has announced availability of on-demand broadcast content; prior to re-entering the sleep state, computing a next wakeup time in order to minimize a total time of receiving the call-paging message and a second number of at least one instance of the broadcast-paging message, and configuring the wireless device to wake at the computed next wakeup time; and wherein the operation of computing the next wakeup time comprises: if the second number is greater than one, planning the next wakeup time to receive at least one broadcast-paging message before the next call-paging message.