REDUCED POWER SLEEP MODES FOR MOBILE TELEPHONES

摘要

In a mobile radio-telephone system including at least one base station transmitting information to subscriber telephones indicating whether they are being called, a method comprising the steps of dividing a repetitive frame period into a number of sleep-mode slots, determining a sleep-mode slot number to be used for transmitting a call to a particular subscriber telephone using an assigned subscriber telephone number, transmitting a calling message in said determined sleep-mode slot including the assigned subscriber telephone number, repeating transmission of the calling message a number of times as determined by system loading and available capacity to transmit such calls, and transmitting an indication of the number of repeated transmissions capacity and loading currently permits.