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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1995
Alex Krister Raith, Durham, NC (US);
Lars Bilstrom, Solna, SE;
John Diachina, Garner, NC (US);
Raymond C Henry, Wake Forrest, NC (US);
Karl-Erik Andersson, Stockholm, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A method and device are provided for controlling an activity mode of a mobile station after the system has originated or terminated a transaction with the mobile station. The activity mode corresponds to whether the mobile station stays 'awake' or goes into a sleep mode, which must be made known to the system. If the mobile station does not immediately go to the sleep mode, the base station can expect the mobile station to be reading all slots. If the mobile station is in the sleep mode, the mobile station only reads its assigned paging slots. The mobile station may not go to the sleep mode until a selected amount of activity time has expired; during the activity time, the mobile station continues to read all slots. As a result, the mobile station can immediately receive packets, thereby saving set-up time which increases the response time of the mobile station.