Patent ID: 8649337

Claim:
A method for wireless communications, comprising: dynamically configuring one or more subframes, of a radio frame, reserved for paging a first group of one or more legacy user equipments as a special subframe in which transmission of reference signals are limited in a data portion of the special subframe, for at least some radio frames; detecting a page for one of the first group of legacy user equipments to be transmitted in the dynamically configured subframe; generating the dynamically configured subframe with a data region and at least one control region interpretable by the first group of one or more legacy user equipments and by a second group of non-legacy user equipments as a second type, wherein the second group of user equipments supports a plurality of features that are a superset of a plurality of features supported by the first group; and transmitting the subframe to the first group and the second group of user equipments.