Abstract: Described is a method for regulating power consumption during page scanning operations in a Bluetooth enabled communication device (102) having a power source (118) and a processor (120) that is configured to communicate according to a plurality of page scanning intervals. The method include assessing trigger events (304, 306) to dynamically adjust page scanning interval output values (308) and accordingly adjusting a power consumption level in accordance with the page scanning interval output values. The variable page scanning intervals change from idle, slow and fast according to their type.

Abstract: A method for resource management in a personal area network includes providing (300) a plurality of communication devices with sharable resources on the personal area network. Each communication device has a resource manager able to communicate and manage the available resources of its resident device on the personal area network. Any one of the resource managers can be assigned (302) as a master resource manager for the personal area network to coordinate (308) information transfer and allocate available resources from the plurality of communication devices. The resources of each communication device is registered (304) in the personal area network with the master resource manager, which coordinates (308) information transfer with the devices when resources are requested (306) from the personal area network.

Abstract: A method of registration in a communication system includes the steps of detecting (201) an elevated registration level of at least a part of a communication system, selecting (203) a group recovery time, determining (205) a first random registration time that is less than or equal to the group recovery time, registering (209) a first communication unit (111) from a first talkgroup at the first random registration time, and upon receiving (212) a group activity message for the first talkgroup, delaying (213) registration by at least a second communication unit (113) from the first talkgroup.