Method and apparatus of paging
OwnerChristopher RICHARDSinventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for optimizing paging are disclosed. In one embodiment, a Data Structure with at least one entry mapping at least one identifier representing a candidate wireless device node to at least one identifier representing a candidate paging base station node whereat the candidate wireless device node has some likelihood of being successfully paged by the candidate base station. At least one related paging communication is optimized by using the Data Structure.
Claims20
A paging optimization system in a communications network, the communications network having base station nodes and wireless device nodes, the base station nodes providing access to the communications network for the wireless device nodes, the paging optimization system comprising:
- a paging optimization node, comprising:
- a tangible computer accessible medium having a Data Structure with at least one entry mapping at least one identifier representing a candidate wireless device node to at least one identifier representing a candidate paging base station node whereat the candidate wireless device node has some likelihood of being successfully paged by the candidate base station;
- a communications interface for communicating with other nodes in the communications network, communications including at least one paging related communication related to paging the candidate wireless device;
- a processor configured to operate with the computer accessible memory and the communications interface, the processor adapted so as to attempt to optimize the at least one related paging communication by using the Data Structure.
A paging optimization method in a communications network, the communications network having base station nodes and wireless device nodes, the base station nodes providing access to the communications network for the wireless device nodes, the paging optimization method operating in paging optimization node, the method comprising the steps of:
- maintaining at least one entry in a Data Structure for mapping at least one wireless device node to at least one base station node;
- searching for an at least one base station node to page the at least one wireless device node;
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- communicating at least one paging related communication related to paging the at least one wireless device by using the Data Structure thereby attempting to optimize paging the at least one wireless device node.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.