System and method for establishing communications between mobile stations

1. A method of increasing system capacity in a network comprising:

receiving a user update to a list of user preferences wherein the list of user preference specifies services to which a mobile station will accept and will not accept and conditions for acceptance;

receiving a page request;

comparing the page request to the updated list of user preferences to determine if the page request is acceptable and that the user preference list is not up-to date;

appending a non-acceptance message to a page response when in the step of comparing determines that the page request is not acceptable and the user preference is not up-to-date and wherein the non-acceptance message includes the updated list of user preferences; and

altering channel assignment when the page response includes the non-acceptance message.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving a page request comprises receiving a page request having a service type and wherein appending a non acceptance message comprises appending a non-acceptance message to a page response when a user preference is not up-to-date and the user preference shows that a user is unavailable to more than a threshold number of sub-services in the service type and a last user update showed the user as being available to the sub-services.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether the page request corresponds to a service for which the user preference is not up-to-date.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein altering channel assignment comprises prohibiting channel assignment.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein altering channel assignment comprises delaying channel assignment.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein appending a non-acceptance message comprises appending a message indicating an identity of a subset of the service that is unacceptable.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein appending a non-acceptance message comprises appending a message indicating the service is unacceptable.

8. The method of claim 1 where altering the channel assignment comprises determining whether to alter the channel assignment based upon a user preference update at a time of the call.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprises a cellular infrastructure comparing a user preference update received during a call establishment with a packet which is causing a call to be initiated.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprises the cellular infrastructure detecting a message has been appended to the mobile response, wherein that message likely contains an updated set of user preferences.

11. A method of increasing system capacity in a network comprising:

at a mobile station:

receiving a user update to a list of user preferences wherein the list of user preference specifies services to which the mobile station will accept and will not accept and conditions for acceptance;

receiving a page request;

comparing the page request to the updated list of user preferences to determine whether the page request corresponds to a service for which the user preference is outdated;

when the user preference is outdated, appending a non-acceptance message to a page response wherein the non-acceptance message includes the updated list of user preferences.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

at the cellular infrastructure:

prohibiting channel assignment when the page request includes the non-acceptance message.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein appending a non-acceptance message comprises appending a message indicating an identity of a subset of a service that is unacceptable.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein appending a non-acceptance message comprises appending a message indicating the service is unacceptable.

15. A device for increasing the system capacity in a network comprising:

a receiver having an input to receive a page request message;

a transmitter having an output; and

a controller coupled to the receiver and the transmitter, the controller programmed to receiving a user update to a list of user preferences wherein the list of user preference specifies services to which a mobile station will accept and will not accept and conditions for acceptance; receiving a page request at the input of the receiver and comparing page request to the updated list of user preferences to determine whether the page request corresponds to a service on the updated list of user preference and to determine if the list of user preferences is outdated, the controller being further programmed to append a non-acceptance message to a page response whenever the user preference is outdated and transmit the page response and non-acceptance message at the output of the transmitter to an infrastructure element and wherein the non-acceptance message includes the updated list of user preferences.

16. The device of claim 15 wherein the non-acceptance message comprises an identity of a subset of the service that is unacceptable.

17. The device of claim 15 wherein the non-acceptance message comprises an indication that the service is unacceptable.

18. The device of claim 15 wherein the page request message includes a service type.