Variable status receiver
First Claim
1. A selective call receiver comprising:
- means for receiving a selective call message, the selective call message comprising an address, a message and message status information and received at a first time;
means for storing the message and a message status associated therewith;
means for handling the message in accordance with the message status; and
means for automatically changing the message status to one of a plurality of predetermined message statuses, the one of the plurality of predetermined message statuses determined in response to the message status information,wherein the message handling means handles the message in accordance with the one of the plurality of predetermined message statuses after the automatic changing means automatically changes the message status to the one of the plurality of predetermined message statuses.
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Abstract
A selective call receiver, such as a pager, has a real-time clock and is capable of determining the response of the receiver to a message in accordance with a status associated with that message. The selective call receiver can also change the status at a selected time or if a characteristic of the message matches a predetermined characteristic. Additionally the selective call receiver may choose from a plurality of priorities a priority of a received message in order to determine if a message stored in the memory of the selective call receiver will be deleted by the received message. The selective call receiver is further capable of determining the type of data decoded by an address with respect to the time of day.
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45 Claims
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1. A selective call receiver comprising:
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means for receiving a selective call message, the selective call message comprising an address, a message and message status information and received at a first time; means for storing the message and a message status associated therewith; means for handling the message in accordance with the message status; and means for automatically changing the message status to one of a plurality of predetermined message statuses, the one of the plurality of predetermined message statuses determined in response to the message status information, wherein the message handling means handles the message in accordance with the one of the plurality of predetermined message statuses after the automatic changing means automatically changes the message status to the one of the plurality of predetermined message statuses. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of assigning a status to a message received by a selective call receiver comprising the steps of:
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receiving a selective call message comprising an address, message status information, and the message; and automatically assigning one of a plurality of message statuses to the message for determining how the message will be handled, the one of the plurality of message statuses determined in response to the message status information. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A selective call receiver comprising:
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means for storing a message and a plurality of characteristics associated with the message including a current message status; means for handling the message in accordance with the current message status; and means for automatically changing the current message status associated with the message from a first message status to a second message status if a characteristic of the message substantially equals a predetermined characteristic. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for changing a current message status of a message stored within a selective call receiver wherein the message is handled in accordance with the current message status thereof, the method comprising the steps of:
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comparing a characteristic associated with stored messages to a first characteristic; and automatically changing the current message status of those stored messages having an associated characteristic substantially equal to the first characteristic. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A selective call receiver comprising:
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means for storing a first message having a first hierarchical message priority; means for receiving a selective call message comprising a second message; means for automatically selecting from a plurality of hierarchical message priorities, a second hierarchical message priority for the second message; means for generating a time of day signal; means for changing the first hierarchical message priority in response to the time of day signal; and means for selectively automatically deleting the first message in response to the second message having the second hierarchical message priority. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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36. A receiver for receiving an information signal, said information signal being formatted in one of a plurality of formats, the receiver comprising:
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clock means for producing a time signal; format selecting means for selecting a format from the plurality of formats in response to the time signal; and means for decoding the information signal in the format selected by said format selecting means. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A selective call receiver for receiving a paging signal having an address signal, the selective call receiver comprising:
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clock means for producing a time of day signal;
;memory means for storing a predetermined address and an enable time and a disable time; receiving means for receiving and demodulating the paging signal; and decoding means for detecting an address signal equal to the predetermined address in response to the time of day signal having a value between the enable and disable times, and for not detecting the address signal in response to the time of day signal having a value not between the disable and enable times. - View Dependent Claims (43)
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44. A selective call receiver, comprising:
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means for receiving messages; means for storing received messages and a message status associated with each received message; means for handling stored messages in accordance with the message status associated therewith; and means for automatically changing the message status of certain stored messages to another message status identified by a manual input means, wherein the handling means handles the certain stored messages in accordance with the another message status after the automatic changing means automatically changes the message status thereof to the another message status.
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45. A selective call receiver, comprising:
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means for receiving messages and initial current message statuses associated therewith; means for storing received messages and a current message status associated with each received message, wherein initially the current message status of received messages are the associated initial current message statuses received therewith; means for automatically changing the current message status of certain stored messages having a characteristic identified by a manual input means; and means for handling stored messages in accordance with the current message statuses stored therewith.
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