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Method and receiver for receiving messages sent by radio

  • US 4,759,022 A
  • Filed: 06/30/1986
  • Issued: 07/19/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/1984
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a method of receiving messges sent by radio transmission in the form of coded characters, combined into a plurality of blocks together with control characters associated with each block, in which method there are included the procedural steps of:

  • receiving the radio transmission and detecting the characters, storing the messages and showing the messages in a display window, the improvement comprising storing the characters in blocks, investigating whether a block contains an incorrectly received character, and, if so, storing in a message memory an error indication together with the associated block, further receiving at least one repetition of each message and storing the same in a register, combining a final version of the message from the blocks associated with the stored messages, which blocks contain the least numbers of errors and storing the final version of the message for presentation in the display window, said improvement further cimprising simultaneously storing a plurality of messages in said message memory and identifying a repeated message as a repeated message by sensing an identity code transmitted in the repeated message, and combining the final version of the message from the stored messages which have like identity codes.

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