Campus area pager system

A campus area pager system, comprising:

• a local area network having a system backbone;
• at least one base station coupled to the system backbone, each of the at least one base station including a wireless communication section;
• a plurality of paging devices for receiving communications from the system backbone via the wireless communication section, each of the plurality of paging devices having a respective pager identification number;
• and
• a pager server coupled to the system backbone, the pager server for receiving page request information including a page message and one of the pager identification numbers, and for transmitting the page information on the system backbone in order to be received by and transmitted via the wireless communication section to the paging device corresponding to the one of the pager identification numbers;
• wherein prior to the at least one paging device receiving the page information, the at least one paging device and the at least one base station are configured to establish registration with one another by way of the at least one paging device transmitting a find base station request to the at least one base station and the at least one base station transmitting an identification message to the paging device in response to the find base station request, the paging device selecting to register with one of the at least one base station transmitting the identification message based on a predetermined criteria and sending a registration request to the selected one of the at least one base station and the selected one of the at least one base station transmitting an acknowledgment to the at least one paging device in response to receiving the registration request, the at least one base station broadcasting a new registration packet onto the system backbone to notify any other base station that the at least one paging device has previously registered, that the at least one paging device is now registered with the at least one base station.

A network system, comprising:

• a local area network (LAN) having a system backbone and a plurality of devices coupled to the system backbone for performing non-paging related activities via communications on the system backbone;
• a plurality of base stations coupled to the system backbone, each of the plurality of base stations including a wireless communication section;
• a plurality of paging devices for receiving communications from the system backbone via the wireless communication section of at least one of the plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of paging devices having a respective pager identification number;
• and
• a pager server coupled to the system backbone, the pager server for receiving page request information including a page message and one of the pager identification numbers, and for transmitting the page information on the system backbone in order to be received by the at least one base station and transmitted via the wireless communication section to the paging device corresponding to the one of the pager identification numbers;
• wherein prior to the paging device receiving the page information, the paging device and the at least one base station are configured to establish registration with one another by way of the paging device transmitting a find router request to the plurality of base stations and the at least one of the plurality of base stations transmitting an identification message to the paging device in response to the find router requests, the paging device choosing to register with one of the plurality of base stations transmitting the identification message based on a predetermined criteria and sending a registration request to the chosen one of the plurality of base stations and the chosen one of the plurality of base stations transmitting an acknowledgment to the paging device in response to receiving the registration request.