METHOD AND APPARATUS OPTIMIZING RECEIPT OF CALL/BROADCAST PAGING MESSAGES BY SELF-POWERED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To minimize power consumption by a wireless communications device (WCD) which receives a broadcast-paging message in addition to an existing call-paging message.

SOLUTION: Quickly responsive to wakeup from sleep, the WCD detects received signal quality. The WCD also receives: scheduled network transmission of a call-paging message; and a number of instances (at least one) of a repeating network transmitted broadcast-paging message that occurs multiple times for each scheduled transmission of the call-paging message. This number varies inversely proportionally with the detected signal quality.

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