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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2009
Applicants:

Debasish Sarkar, Irvine, CA (US);

Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);

Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Debasish Sarkar, Irvine, CA (US);

Manoj Shetty, Overland Park, KS (US);

Sachin R. Vargantwar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Siddharth S. Oroskar, Overland Park, KS (US);

Deveshkumar Rai, Overland Park, KS (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 68/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 68/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method for improved paging in a wireless communication system. In a scenario where base stations broadcast congestion indicators to prevent mobile stations from registering in coverage areas that are experiencing threshold congestion, the method provides for a new form of zone based paging that accounts for the possibility that a mobile station has entered into a new zone but has not yet registered due to a threshold congestion state. According to the method, a paging attempt will be directed to the mobile station's zone of last registration and to only those coverage areas in at least one adjacent paging zone that are deemed to be experiencing threshold congestion.


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