APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR PAGING A MOBILE STATION WITH BOTH INDIVIDUALLY-DIRECTED AND BROADCAST PAGES
First Claim
1. An apparatus for facilitating mobile-station paging upon at least a first paging channel, said apparatus comprising:
- a bit sequence provider configured to provide a first group of bits;
an alterer configured to alter the first group of bits to form an altered group of bits if the first group of bits equals a reserved group of bits; and
a page message generator configured to generate a first page message that includes the altered group of bits, if formed, and that otherwise includes the first group of bits.
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method for facilitating paging of a mobile station that is capable of being paged either pursuant to an individually-directed page or pursuant to a broadcast page. The page that is generated is of bits that permit unambiguous determination by a mobile station when the mobile station receives an individually-directed page and when the mobile station receives a broadcast page. When bits that are to be used in a page are created at the network, a determination is made as to whether the bits correspond to the bits of a broadcast page. If the bits correspond, the bits of the generated bits are altered.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus for facilitating mobile-station paging upon at least a first paging channel, said apparatus comprising:
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a bit sequence provider configured to provide a first group of bits; an alterer configured to alter the first group of bits to form an altered group of bits if the first group of bits equals a reserved group of bits; and a page message generator configured to generate a first page message that includes the altered group of bits, if formed, and that otherwise includes the first group of bits. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for facilitating mobile-station paging upon a first paging channel, said method comprising:
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grouping a subset of unique mobile station identifier bits into a first group of bits; altering the first group of bits to form an altered group of bits if the first group of bits equals a reserved group of bits; and generating a first page message that includes the altered group of bits, if formed, and the otherwise includes the first group of bits. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An apparatus for facilitating paging of a mobile station, said apparatus comprising:
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a detector configured to detect a paging message sent on a first paging channel, the paging message comprising one of a first group of bits and an altered group of bits; and a determiner configured to determine whether the paging message comprises a group identifier that identifies a mobile-station group that includes the mobile station and whether the paging message comprises a broadcast page.
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20. A method for facilitating paging of a mobile terminal, said method comprising:
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detecting a paging message sent on a first paging channel, the paging message comprising one of a first group of bits and an altered group of bits; and determining whether the paging message comprises a group identifier that identifies a mobile-station group that includes the mobile station and whether the paging message comprises a broadcast page.
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