Pager with visible display indicating status of memory
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1. In a pager, a method of indicating a number of received pages comprising the steps of:
- incrementing a register when a page is received; and
displaying a count from the register, which count is a measure of the number of received pages.
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Abstract
A radio pager decoder including a register which is incremented when a page is received and a visual indicator which displays a count of the number of received pages. Pages may also be selectively retrieved from memory.
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1. In a pager, a method of indicating a number of received pages comprising the steps of:
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incrementing a register when a page is received; and displaying a count from the register, which count is a measure of the number of received pages.
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2. A pager including a receiver, means for decoding an address in a received page, and means for controlling functions, the pager comprising:
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means for detecting a received page; means for counting a number of detected received pages; and means for displaying a measure of the count. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4)
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5. In a pager including a page address decoder that produces a pulse in response to a received page, a circuit for indicating a number of received pages comprising:
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a plurality of cascaded flip-flops connected to the page address decoder, receiving as an input the pulse from the page address decoder, and receiving as a clock input a delayed pulse from the page address decoder; and a plurality of message indicators equal in number to the number of cascaded flip-flops, each one of the message indicators connected to a different one of the flip-flops of the cascaded flip-flops to indicate a number of flip-flops that have been triggered, which number is a measure of the number of received pages. - View Dependent Claims (6)
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7. A paging receiver including a memory, comprising:
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means for detecting a plurality of types of received pages; means for determining which of said types of received pages has been received; and means for counting a number of received pages of a particular type. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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