APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURING A PAGE MESSAGE USED TO PAGE AN ACCESS TERMINAL IN A RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20080051113A1
• Filed: 08/20/2007
• Published: 02/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: WILLEY, WILLIAM DANIEL
• Granted Patent: US 8,155,674 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/025 Indirect paging

Abstract

Apparatus, and an associated method, for paging an access terminal in a radio communication system. Dynamic configuration and reconfiguration of a quick page message is provided. Its configuration is dependent upon paging load in the system. Hash values are selected and used pursuant to the configuration, and use, of the message. A first hash value is selected within a first range. And, a second hash value is selected within a second range. The second range from which the second hash value is selected does not include the first hash value.

Claims

1. A method of identifying a structure by which a page message is configured, said method comprising the operations of:

allocating a number of page indicators per page field in the page message; and

setting the field to be a value to identify a number of page indicators per page that are included in the page message.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the field allocated during said operation of allocating comprises a two-bit field of the page message.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the page message comprises a thirty-five bit message and wherein the field thereof allocated during said operation of allocating comprises a near-end-positioned field of the thirty-five bit message.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the value set at the field during said operation of setting comprises a first logical value to identify a first number of page indicators per page included in the page message.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the value set at the field during said operation of setting comprises a second logical value to identify a second number of page indicators per page included in the page message.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the value set at the field during said operation of setting comprises a third logical value to identify a third number of page indicators per page included in the page message.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the value set at the field during said operation of setting comprises a fourth logical value to identify a fourth number of page indicators per page included in the page message.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the number of page indicators per page, of which the value set in the field during said operation of setting, comprises a number.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising the operations of configuring the page message to include a thirty-three bit field and populating the thirty-three bit field with page indicators.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the field allocated during said operation of allocating comprises a bit-pair field.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the page message comprises a thirty-five bit message and wherein the bit-pair field comprises a non-end-positioned bit-pair field.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the bit-pair field comprises a pair of bit locations, the pair of bit locations including a bit location thereof, adjacent to an end-positioned bit location.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising the operation of generating a signaling message that includes indication of configuration of the page message.

14. Apparatus for a structure by which a page message is configured, said apparatus comprising:

an allocator configured to allocate a field of the page message as a number of page indicators per page field in the page message; and

a setter configured to set the field to be of a value to identify a number of page indicators per page that are included in the page message.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the field allocated by said allocator comprises a two-bit field of the page message.

16. In an access network entity that sends information, an improvement of apparatus for structuring a page message, said apparatus comprising:

a first message generator configured to generate the page message, the page message structured to include a number of page indicators per page field populatable with a value to identify a number of page indicators per page that are included in the page message.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the number of page indicators per page field of the page message generated by said first message generator comprises a two-bit field.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the page message generated by said first message generator comprises a thirty-five bit message and wherein the number of page indicators per page field thereof comprises a non-end-positioned bit field of the thirty-five bit message.

19. The apparatus of claim 18 wherein the non-end-positioned bit field comprises a pair of bit locations of which a bit location thereof is positioned adjacent to an end-positioned bit location.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein the pair of bit locations comprises a thirty-fourth bit location and a thirty-third bit location of the thirty-five bit message.

21. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the number of page indicators per page comprises a number.

22. Apparatus for facilitating paging of an access terminal, said apparatus comprising:

a first detector configured to detect delivery of a page message having a number of page indicators per page field set to be of a value to identify a number of page indicators per page that are included in the page message.