sorting and pagination while using OperationsManager/data/alert rest api

Question

while using the following scom rest api
http://<Servername>/OperationsManager/data/alert
how can we specify that we need to get first 100 alerts with specific criteria. I mean how can we do pagination.

And second question how can we sort the data based on alert creation time and fetch the data.

Looking for ways to sort based on some field and pagination