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Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging a mobile station operable in a radio communication system

  • US 20050037781A1
  • Filed: 08/13/2003
  • Published: 02/17/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a communication system having a network part and a mobile station selectably operable to communicate with the network part by way of a radio air interface, the mobile station operable in an active state and at least a dormant state, an improvement of apparatus for facilitating initiation of a communication session with the mobile station, the mobile station forming a terminating node, said apparatus comprising:

  • a location index for indexing together positional indicia associated with the mobile station forming the terminating node; and

    a page message generator embodied at the network part, said page message generator for generating a page message for broadcast upon the radio air interface throughout an area responsive to the positional indicia indexed at said location index to alert the mobile station of an invitation to initiate the communication session with the mobile station, the page message forming a wake-up indicator, the wake-up indicator detectable by the mobile station when in the dormant state.

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