Patent ID: 8442559

Claim:
A method of operating a communication system, the method comprising: receiving historical performance information for an entity, wherein the historical performance information includes a paging delay value and a paging cost value for each of a plurality of past call periods; receiving target performance information indicating a paging delay goal and a paging cost goal; processing the historical performance information and the target performance information to determine a past call period, wherein the past call period comprises one of the plurality of past call periods having a paging delay value that is within a predetermined proximity of the paging delay goal and a paging cost value that is within a predetermined proximity of the paging cost goal; processing call history information associated with the entity to determine a plurality of locations where the entity was located during the past call period; receiving a call for the entity; and in response to the call, identifying the call as a voice call and transferring a plurality of paging messages only to the last N most recently visited locations of the plurality of locations and the top X fraction of most visited cells by the entity, where N and X are predetermined numbers, to page the entity.