Can you add segments after the pagination page number? (uri_segment)

[eluser]adisaco[/eluser]
is there a way to modify the url used by pagination so that I can specify where the page segment can be added like:

“http://localhost/controller/function/” . $uri_segment . “/sortby/ascending/tab1/”;

This way I can always use segment 3?

I have a page with 4 tabs, and all 4 tabs have pagination - so I want to use a separate segment for each tabs page number