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An hierarchical addressing mechanism for use in a paging system is disclosed. The paging system assigns a compressed organization identifier to each of the organization identifiers for the organizations that are sharing the resources of the paging system. Each of the pagers within the paging system

An hierarchical addressing mechanism for use in a paging system is disclosed. The paging system assigns a compressed organization identifier to each of the organization identifiers for the organizations that are sharing the resources of the paging system. Each of the pagers within the paging system are provided with an associative table that associates the compressed organization identifiers with organization identifiers. In operation, the paging system forms a page by appending an address word to a message. The address word includes the compressed organization identifier determined from the associative table and the pager identifier for the called pager. In this manner, a more efficient method of addressing pagers is disclosed.

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[ The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] A method for addressing a plurality of pagers in a paging system, each of said plurality of pagers belonging to at least one of a plurality of organizations, each of said plurality

[ The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] A method for addressing a plurality of pagers in a paging system, each of said plurality of pagers belonging to at least one of a plurality of organizations, each of said plurality of organizations having assigned thereto an organization identifier, the paging system including a plurality of paging stations, said plurality of organizations sharing said plurality of paging stations, the method comprising the steps of:(a) forming an associative table having a one to one correspondence between each said organization identifier for said plurality of organizations and a plurality of compressed organization identifiers; and(b) formulating an address word for a page to a paged pager as the compressed organization identifier associated with the organization identifier of the paged pager and a pager identifier for the paged pager.