Paging receiver in which an announcing unit is automatically controlled at a particular time instant

• US 5,434,563 A
• Filed: 10/28/1993
• Issued: 07/18/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kudoh, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Peng, John K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HILL, ANDREW M
• Application Number:
  US08/142,106
• Time in Patent Office: 628 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.44, 340/825.45, 340/825.46, 340/825.47, 340/825.48, 340/539, 340/311.1, 340/309.15, 340/309.2, 340/309.3, 340/309.4, 340/309.5 , 340/825.037, 455/38.2, 455/38.4, 455/231
• US Class Current: 340/7.62
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/1025 Paging receivers with audible signalling details
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/224 Paging receivers with visible signalling details

Abstract

In a paging receiver having a plurality of receiver modes, an announcing arrangement is controlled at a particular time instant determined at a specific time instant which is previous to the particular time instant. The paging receiver is provided with a switch which is switchable to a plurality of conditions of selecting the receiver modes one at a time. A control part inspects the switch to produce a condition signal representative of one of the conditions to which the switch is switched. Responsive to the condition signal, the control part controls the announcing arrangement at the particular time instant.

Claims

1. A paging receiver comprising:

announcing means for carrying out announcement in relation to information which is directed to said paging receiver, said announcing means having a plurality of announcement modes for said announcement;

selecting means connected to said announcing means for selecting a predetermined one of said announcement modes to make said announcing means carry out said announcement in said predetermined one of said announcement modes;

determining means for determining a predetermined time duration;

manually operable producing means for producing a determining signal in response to a manual operation of said manually operable producing means; and

setting means connected to said announcing means, said determining means, and said manually operable producing means for setting said announcing means in another one of said announcement modes only during said predetermined time duration after production of said determining signal, said announcing means being returned to said predetermined one of said announcement modes after a lapse of said predetermined time duration.

2. A paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

memory means connected to said announcing means and said setting means for memorizing said information while said announcing means is put in said other one of said announcement modes;

additional producing means connected to said determining means and said manually operable producing means for producing a time out signal when said predetermined time duration lapses after the production of said determining signal; and

directing means connected to said announcing means, said memory means, and said additional producing means and responsive to said time out signal for directing, in a case where said memory means memorizes said information, said announcing means to carry out said announcement in one of said announcement modes which is difference from said other one of said announcement modes.

3. A paging receiver responsive to a radio call signal with a call number for carrying out announcement in relation to information which is directed to said paging receiver in a plurality of announcement modes when said call number is assigned to said paging receiver, said paging receiver comprising:

a switch;

first announcing means for carrying out said announcement in a first announcement mode;

second announcing means connected to said switch for carrying out said announcement in a second announcement mode only during a predetermined time duration after operation of said switch;

third announcing means connected to said second announcing means for carrying out, only when said paging receiver receives with said radio call signal in said second announcement mode, said announcement in a third announcement mode after said predetermined time duration lapses; and

enabling means connected to said first and said third announcing means for enabling said first announcing means to carry out said announcement after each of said second and said third announcing means carries out said announcement.