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Tune-away and cross paging systems and methods

  • US 8,068,835 B2
  • Filed: 10/27/2005
  • Issued: 11/29/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for detecting pages in a mobile broadband wireless access system, comprising:

  • providing a tune-away mechanism to sample for a page in a communications system, the tune-away mechanism briefly tunes to a disparate frequency to sample the page;

    determining timing differences between rages associated with an access terminal in at least two communications systems;

    determining a tune-away schedule that accounts for the timing differences between the pages in the communications systems; and

    tuning away from a current communications system temporarily to sample the page associated with the access terminal in another communications system in accordance with the tune-away schedule.

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