Method for coordinating paging occasions on a common paging channel
AssigneeInterDigital Technology Corporation
InventorStephen E. Terry
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Abstract
A method of paging a plurality of users by synchronizing user equipment (UE) specific paging and Point-to-Multipoint (PtM) user group paging to reduce power consumption when the UE is in a discontinuous reception state. The UE identities are defined such that paging occasions and common paging channels are synchronized for multiple users within a PtM user group.
Claims7
In a wireless communication system, a method of paging a plurality of users comprising:
- (a) selecting a physical paging channel from a list of paging channels;
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- (b) determining a particular paging occasion on the selected paging channel, the paging occasion being identified by a unique radio frame number, wherein a temporary identity is used to synchronize paging services of both point-to-point (PtP) and point-to-multipoint (PtM) services.
In a wireless communication system, a method of paging a plurality of users comprising:
- (a) selecting a physical paging channel from a list of paging channels;
- (b) determining a particular point-to-multipoint (PtM) paging occasion on the selected paging channel for each of a plurality of subsets of the users, the paging occasion being identified by a unique radio frame number;
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- (c) generating a page occasion for each of the user subsets.
In a wireless communication system, a method of paging a plurality of users comprising:
- (a) determining a paging identity of a specific user equipment (UE);
- (b) selecting a physical paging channel from a list of paging channels;
- (c) determining a particular paging occasion on the selected paging channel;
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- (d) determining a broadcast service to be activated during the paging occasion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.