Patent ID: 7970420

Claim:
A method for paging a wireless terminal in a wireless communication system comprising: transmitting a quick page message from a base station to the wireless terminal via a first channel, said quick page message notifying the wireless terminal to begin monitoring a second channel for a full page message; transmitting said full page message from the base station to the wireless terminal via said second channel; wherein said second channel includes more processing than said first channel, wherein said more processing includes encoding through an encoder, interleaving through an interleaver, and adding cyclic redundancy check through a cyclic redundancy check circuit to said full page message; wherein said wireless terminal is a particular wireless terminal included within a set of wireless terminals in said wireless communication system; wherein said quick page message is for directing said set of wireless terminals to monitor said second channel for said full page message; wherein said quick page message contains less data than said full page message; wherein said full page message identifies said particular wireless terminal among said set of wireless terminals; wherein said transmitting said quick page message occurs during a first time slot assigned to the set of wireless terminals; wherein said transmitting said full page message occurs during a second time slot assigned to the set of wireless terminals; wherein said second time slot occurs after said first time slot by a delay; wherein said quick page message is comprised of a single bit of data, and wherein the set of wireless terminals assigned to said first time slot changes over time by applying a hashing function to a MOBILE ID of the wireless terminal to ensure that each wireless terminal is associated with a different set of other wireless terminals during each first time slot.