Non-circular paging areas
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1. A method performed by a radio node controller in a radio access network, the method comprising:
- retrieving information defining a non-circular paging area for a paging reference sector, the information being based on second information associated with the paging reference sector; and
identifying one or more sectors of the radio access network overlapping the non-circular paging area from which an access terminal is to be paged.
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Abstract
In a radio access network, techniques for defining a non-circular paging area in which an access terminal is to be paged based on distance-based location updating information for a sector of the network.
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31 Claims
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1. A method performed by a radio node controller in a radio access network, the method comprising:
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retrieving information defining a non-circular paging area for a paging reference sector, the information being based on second information associated with the paging reference sector; and identifying one or more sectors of the radio access network overlapping the non-circular paging area from which an access terminal is to be paged. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23, 29, 30)
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18. A computer-readable medium that stores executable instructions for use at a radio node controller of a radio access network, the instructions for causing the radio node controller to:
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retrieve information defining a non-circular paging area for a paging reference sector, the information being based on second information associated with the paging reference sector; and identify one or more sectors of the radio access network overlapping the non-circular paging area from which an access terminal is to be paged. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A method performed by a radio network controller in a radio access network, the method comprising:
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selecting sectors as lying within a non-circular paging area for a paging reference sector when an incoming call is detected; and paging an access terminal from the radio access network in the sectors.
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21. A method performed by a radio network controller in a radio access network, the method comprising:
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identifying sectors and designating the sectors as paging reference sectors; defining a non-circular super paging area to encompass non-circular paging areas corresponding to the paging reference sectors; selecting a first set of sectors overlapping the non-circular super paging area when an incoming call is detected by comparing positional values of a second set of sectors with boundaries of the non-circular super paging area, the second set of sectors comprising at least the first set of sectors; and paging the access terminal from the first set of sectors. - View Dependent Claims (31)
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22. A radio access network comprising a packet data serving node, a radio node controller and at least one radio node, said radio access network configured to:
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receive, from an access terminal, a route update message; designate a paging reference sector based on the received message; retrieve information defining a non-circular paging area of the paging reference sector; identify one or more sectors that overlap the non-circular paging area; and page the access terminal from the one or more sectors when an incoming call is detected at the packet data serving node.
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24. A method performed by a radio node controller in a radio access network, the method comprising:
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retrieving information defining non-circular paging areas for corresponding paging reference sectors, the information being based on corresponding second information respectively associated with the corresponding paging reference sectors; generating a non-circular super paging area of the corresponding paging reference sectors, the non-circular super paging area comprising a union of the non-circular paging areas; and identifying one or more sectors of the radio access network overlapping the non-circular super paging area from which an access terminal is to be paged. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28)
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