Method and system for managing paging of a wireless communication device

摘要

A radio access network (RAN) may be configured to manage paging of a wireless communication device (WCD). The RAN may initiate a paging process to page the WCD, and the paging process may comprise the RAN transmitting to the WCD a defined sequence of page attempts until the RAN receives a page response from the WCD or the RAN has transmitted a final page attempt of the sequence. After the RAN has transmitted at least one page attempt of the sequence but before the final page attempt of the sequence has been transmitted, the RAN may determine that the RAN has not received the page response from the WCD, and that the WCD is currently engaged in active data communication, and the RAN may responsively discontinue the paging process.

主权项

1. In a radio access network (RAN) that provides wireless communication service to at least one wireless communication device (WCD), a method comprising:
the RAN initiating a paging process to page a WCD over at least one air interface, wherein the paging process comprises the RAN transmitting over the at least one air interface for receipt by the WCD a defined sequence of page messages until the RAN receives a page response from the WCD or the RAN has transmitted a final page message of the sequence; and after the RAN has transmitted at least one page message of the sequence over the at least one air interface for receipt by the WCD but before the RAN has transmitted the final page message of the sequence over the at least one air interface for receipt by the WCD, (a) the RAN determining (i) that the RAN has not received the page response from the WCD and (ii) that the WCD is currently engaged in active data communication, and (b) responsive to the determining, the RAN discontinuing the paging process, wherein the RAN determining that the RAN has not received the page response from the WCD comprises at least one operation selected from the group consisting of (1) the RAN determining that the RAN has not received the page response from the WCD within a threshold period of time since the RAN initiated the paging process and (2) the RAN determining that the RAN has transmitted a threshold number of the page messages over the at least one air interface for receipt by the WCD without yet receiving the page response from the WCD.