Communications Apparatus
A communications apparatus which operates using a multi-layer protocol stack, the communications apparatus comprising an application processor and a communications processor, wherein the communications processor is configured to handle all functionality related to paging of the communications apparatus without intervention from the application processor.
1 . A communications apparatus which operates using a multi-layer protocol stack, the communications apparatus comprising an application processor and a communications processor, wherein the communications processor is configured to handle all functionality related to paging of the communications apparatus without intervention from the application processor.
2 . A communications apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the communications processor is configured to implement functionality related to lower layers of the multi-layer stack and the application processor is configured to implement functionality related to upper layers of the multi-layer protocol stack.
3 . A communications apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the communications processor is configured to implement functionality related to layers 1 to 3 of the multi-layer stack.
4 . A communications apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the communications processor is configured such that all functionality related to paging of the communications apparatus is implemented in a single layer of the multi-layer protocol stack.
5 . A communications apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the layer is a physical layer of the multi-layer protocol stack.
6 . A communications apparatus according to claim 4 wherein a software module is associated with the layer of the protocol stack, which software module is configured to handle at least part of the paging of the communications apparatus.