Radiotelephone telephone number down loading

• US 5,127,040 A
• Filed: 03/02/1990
• Issued: 06/30/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Rokusek, Daniel S., D'Avello, Robert F., Tobolski, Francis P. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dwyer, James L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Application Number:
  US07/497,749
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 379/56, 379/58, 379/59, 379/61, 379/355-357
• US Class Current: 455/419
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/205 Transfer to or from user equipment or user record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A method and apparatus for remotely loading a telephone number into a mobile unit is disclosed. A registration computer in a credit card payment radiotelephone system places a call to a mobile radiotelephone unit and conveys a telephone number to the mobile unit which is stored at the mobile unit. This telephone number may later be recalled and transmitted by the mobile unit to accomplish a telephone call.

Claims

1. A method of placing repertory telephone numbers in a subscriber telephone unit from a fixed site, the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting a data message from the fixed site to the subscriber radiotelephone unit including an identification of a predetermined memory location and a digital representation of a first telephone number;

receiving said data message at the remote unit;

storing said digital representation of said first telephone number in said predetermined memory location at the subscriber radiotelephone unit for later selection by the user from among a plurality of digital representations of telephone numbers each stored at an associated predetermined memory location; and

transmitting said digital representation of said first telephone number to the fixed site whereby a telephone call to said first telephone number may be accomplished.

7. A radiotelephone system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising means at the remote unit for acknowledging receipt of said data message.

8. A radiotelephone system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising means at the fixed site for requesting the at least one remote unit to recall said digital representation of said first telephone number and to transmit said digital representation of said first telephone number to the fixed site.

9. A radiotelephone system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising means at the fixed site for generating said data message.

10. A radiotelephone system in accordance with claim 9 further comprising means at the fixed site for placing a telephone call to the at least one remote unit whereby said data message may be transmitted from the fixed site to the at least one remote unit.

2. A mobile unit for a radiotelephone system in which telephone numbers which are to be stored at associated predetermined memory locations as repertory number storage in the mobile unit for recall and transmission by the mobile unit are formatted into a data message and transmitted to the mobile unit from a fixed site, said mobile unit comprising:

means for receiving a data message;

means for extracting an identification of a predetermined location and a digital representation of a first telephone number to be stored at said identified predetermined location from said data message;

means for recalling said stored digital representation of said first telephone number from said identified predetermined memory location when user selects said identified predetermined memory location; and

means for transmitting said recalled stored digital representation to the fixed site to accomplish a telephone call.

3. A mobile unit for a radiotelephone system in accordance with claim 2 further comprising means for acknowledging said data message.

4. A remote unit for a radiotelephone system in which repertory telephone numbers which are to be stored at associated predetermined memory locations in the remote unit for recall and transmission by the user of the remote unit are formatted into a data message by a fixed site and transmitted to the remote unit from the fixed site, said mobile unit comprising:

means for receiving a data message;

means for extracting an identification of a predetermined location and a digital representation of a first telephone number to be stored at said identified predetermined memory location from said data message; and

means for recalling said stored digital representation of said first telephone number from said identified predetermined memory location when said identified predetermined memory location is selected by the user.

5. A remote unit for a radiotelephone system in accordance with claim 4 wherein said predetermined memory location is received in and extracted from said data message.

6. A radiotelephone system in which telephone numbers which are to be stored as repertory telephone number storage in at least one remote unit are downloaded from a fixed site to the at least one remote unit, the radiotelephone system comprising:

means at the at least one remote unit for storing a plurality of digital representations of telephone numbers, each digital representation of said plurality of digital representations being stored in a memory which is location distinct from the other memory locations containing the other digital representations;

means for transmitting a data message from the fixed site to the at least one remote unit including an identification of a first distinct memory location and a digital representation of a first telephone number to be stored at said first distinct memory location in the remote unit;

means at the at least one remote unit for receiving said data message;

means at the at least one remote unit for accepting a user selection of said first distinct memory location;

means at the at least one remote unit for recalling said stored digital representation of said first telephone number in response to said user selection; and

means at the at least one remote unit for transmitting said recalled stored digital representation of said first telephone number to the fixed site to accomplish a telephone call.

11. A method of remotely storing a telephone number in a multiple number repertory storage in a remote unit, the remote unit operating in a radiotelephone system in which telephone numbers which are to be stored in at least one remote unit are downloaded from a fixed site to the at least one remote unit, the method comprising the steps of:

storing a plurality of digital representations of telephone numbers at the at least one remote unit, each digital representation of said plurality of digital representations being stored in a memory location which is distinct from the other memory locations containing the other digital representations;

transmitting a data message from the fixed site to the at least one remote unit including an identification of a first distinct memory location and a digital representation of a first telephone number to be stored at said first distinct memory location in the at least one remote unit;

receiving said data message at the at least one remote unit;

accepting, at the at least one remote unit, a user selection of said first distinct memory location;

recalling said stored digital representation of said first telephone number at the at least one remote unit in response to said accepting of said user selection; and

transmitting said recalled stored digital representation to the fixed site to accomplish a telephone call.

12. A method in accordance with the method of claim 11 further comprising the step of acknowledging receipt of said data message at the least one remote unit.

13. A method in accordance with the method of claim 11 further comprising the step of transmitting a request from the fixed site to the at least one remote unit for the at least one remote unit to recall said digital representation of said first telephone number and to transmit said digital representation to the fixed site.

14. A method in accordance with the method of claim 11 further comprising the step of generating said data message at the fixed site.

15. A method in accordance with the method of claim 14 further comprising the step of placing a telephone call to the at least one remote unit from the fixed site whereby said data message may be transmitted from the fixed site to the at least one remote unit.