Motorola Corporation

Patrick O'Connor Smith

Keith Andrew Olds

Ralph Charles Gregg

A satellite-based, world-wide cellular messaging system (5) transmits paging messages to pagers (2) via multiple beams. A pager (2) monitors multiple beams, recording the schedules for each beam, and by combining the schedules for multiple beams, ultimately determines which frames in the message groups to monitor for messages. Pager (2), which conserves battery resources by entering into a sleep mode, synchronizes quickly to its message block when it awakes.

Paging system employing delivery schedule combining and method of

A satellite-based, world-wide cellular messaging system (5) transmits paging messages to pagers (2) via multiple beams. A pager (2) monitors multiple beams, recording the schedules for each beam, and by combining the schedules for multiple beams, ultimately determines which frames in the message groups to monitor for messages. As propagation characteristics degrade, an adaptive method refines the criteria for including frames into a monitoring schedule.

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Damascus, MD, United States of America

Patrick O'Connor Smith