Pager receiver for giving at least one of extraordinary tones and extraordinary displays

• US 4,704,608 A
• Filed: 07/21/1986
• Issued: 11/03/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nippon Electric Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Electric Company Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Sato, Yukio, Ichikawa, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Weldon, Ulysses
• Application Number:
  US06/885,736
• Time in Patent Office: 470 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.44-825.48, 340/311.1, 379/185, 455/31, 455/32, 455/38
• US Class Current: 340/7.62
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/224 Paging receivers with visible signalling details
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 with message or information receiving capability

Abstract

A pager receiver for a radio calling signal carrying a call number and/or a message comprises a processing unit for producing a drive and an information signal to produce ordinary tone or tones related to the call number and to provide ordinary visual displays representative of the message, respectively. A processed signal is produced by the processing unit to provide extraordinary tones peculiar to a message-absent call, a message-present call, and a repeat call for repeatedly displaying a prior message. The processed signal also appears to provide extraordinary visual displays unique to the message-absent call. When the pager receiver has a plurality of preassigned call numbers, the processed signal is produced to provide such extraordinary displays inherent to each of the respective preassigned call numbers. In addition to the extraordinary displays of the preassigned call number, a plurality of messages are successively stored in a memory in a predetermined order to be successively displayed one by one. On reception of the repeat call, the predetermined order may be changed to keep the message related to the repeat call from being erasing from the memory even when the memory is full of message.

Claims

1. A pager receiver having at least one preassigned call number capable of responding to call signals including a present one of said call signals that is preceded by preceding ones of said call signals, each of said call signals being either of a first type and a second type call signals, each of said first and second type call signals comprising a call number signal indicative of a call number, each of said second type call signals further comprising a message signal carrying a message, said present call signal including a present one of said call number signals and further including, when said present call signal is a present one of said second type call signals, a present one of said messages, said pager receiver comprising:

one processing means for processing said present call signal to produce a drive signal upon coincidence of the call number indicated by said present call number signal with said at least one preassigned call number, said one processing means producing an information signal representative of the message carried by said present message signal when said present call signal is a second type call signal, and said drive signal is produced;

another processing means operatively coupled to said one processing means for processing the present call number signal of said first type call signal to produce a first processed signal, for processing the present call number signal of said second type call signal and said present message signal to produce a second processed signal, and further for processing said present message signal and the message signals of said preceding call signals to produce a third processed signal;

audible signal producing means selectively responsive to said drive signal and to one of said first through said third processed signals for selectively producing either an ordinary audible signal corresponding to said drive signal or extraordinary audible signals peculiar to said first through said third processed signals, respectively; and

display means coupled to said one processing means and responsive to said information signal for displaying said message.

2. A pager receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said another processing means comprises:

storing means for storing a preselected number of the message signals of said preceding call signals;

comparing means coupled to said storing means for comparing said present message signal with each of the message signals of said preceding call signals to produce a coincidence signal representative of coincidence of said present message signal with one of said preceding message signals and to produce a non-coincidence signal representative of non-coincidence of said present message signal with each of said preceding message signals; and

production means coupled to said one processing means and said comparing means for producing said first processed signal when said drive signal is produced by said one processing means and when said present call signal includes no message, said production means further including means for selectively producing said second and third processed signals when said drive signal is produced and said present call signal includes a message and in response to said coincidence and said non-coincidence signals, respectively; and

signal supply mean coupled to said production means for selectively supplying said first through third processed signals to said audible signal producing means to make said audible signal producing means selectively produce said extraordinary audible signals peculiar to said first through third processed signals.