Selective call receiver having customized voice alerts

• US 5,307,059 A
• Filed: 04/18/1991
• Issued: 04/26/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Nolan, Tom, Connary, Gregg M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yusko, Donald J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): GIUST, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US07/686,850
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.44, 340/825.46, 340/825.48, 340/311.1, 379/63, 379/71, 455/200
• US Class Current: 340/7.62
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/229 with other provisions not elsewhere provided for
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 379/911 Distinctive ringing

Abstract

A selective call receiver comprises a receiver for receiving a signal, a processor for processing the received signal to detect an address code therein, a storage device for storing information representing at least one personalized alert signal, and a controller coupled to the storage device for presenting one of the personalized alert signals when an appropriate address code is detected.

Claims

1. A selective call receiver capable of generating at least one user-created voice alert, comprising:

receiver means for receiving a signal;

processing means for processing the received signal to detect an address code and a message therein;

microphone means for receiving the at least one user-created voice alert;

storage means for storing the at least one user-created voice alert prior to receiving the signal; and

control means coupled to the storage means for presenting the at least one user-created voice alerts when the address code is detected.

2. In a selective call receiver, a method for alerting a user with a user-defined alert of a received message, comprising the steps of:

customizing the user-defined alert by receiving a phonic signal as created by the user;

receiving the user-defined alert;

digitizing the received user-defined alert;

storing the digitized user-defined alert within a memory;

decoding a received signal to recover an address code and the message therein;

generating the digitized user-defined alert in response to the decoded received signal and from the stored user-defined alert;

presenting the message corresponding to the generated digitized user-defined alert.