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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2014
James P. Knauft, Warrenville, IL (US);
Gordon S. Milliken, North Aurora, IL (US);
Keith R. Stanley, Warrenville, IL (US);
James P. Knauft, Warrenville, IL (US);
Gordon S. Milliken, North Aurora, IL (US);
Keith R. Stanley, Warrenville, IL (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for improving paging efficiency of a user equipment method including obtaining a history of the user equipment, the history including one or more past locations of the user equipment, obtaining a mobility pattern of the user equipment, the mobility pattern including one or more of a plurality of mobility categories, determining a confidence level for an associated location of the user equipment based on at least one of the mobility pattern and the history, the confidence level indicating a level of confidence that the user equipment is at the associated location, and deriving a paging range based on the confidence level, the paging range including one of a plurality of paging scopes, each of the plurality of paging scopes including at least one of a geographic or location extent, a paging frequency, a single node, a plurality of nodes, a tracking area and a plurality of tracking areas.