Selective pager receiver

• US 5,508,688 A
• Filed: 07/07/1994
• Issued: 04/16/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Mochizuki, Yasuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A
• Application Number:
  US08/272,510
• Time in Patent Office: 649 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.44, 455/38.3, 455/343
• US Class Current: 340/7.58
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/1025 Paging receivers with audible signalling details

Abstract

Even when a user is unaware of a reception informing operation, reception informing functions are automatically stopped to prevent unnecessary current consumption. A receiver includes a mode switch for performing switching between a function for manually stopping the operations of various reception informing functions such as an audible tone, display, vibration, and light emission and a function for automatically stopping them, an auto reset setting switch for performing selection for automatically stopping any of the reception informing functions when the manual stop function is selected, and a timer for automatically stopping the reception informing function selected by the auto reset setting switch when a predetermined duration has elapsed. Even in a manual reset state, the set reception informing function is automatically stopped when a predetermined duration measured by the timer has elapsed.

Claims

1. A selective pager receiver comprising:

a plurality of call informing means for informing a user of a call, said call informing means respectively performing different call informing operations;

detecting means for detecting a call for said selective pager receiver in accordance with information included in a received radio signal and a preassigned selective call number of said selective pager receiver;

mode switching means for switching between a manual reset mode for manually stopping an operation of each of said call informing means and an auto reset mode for automatically stopping the operation of each of said call informing means, operation of each of said call informing means being automatically terminated in the auto reset mode when a first predetermined duration has elapsed after start of calling said selective pager receiver;

setting means for setting selected ones of said call informing means for automatic operation termination in the manual reset mode;

timer means for automatically stopping the operation of any of said call informing means selected by said setting means when a second predetermined period duration has elapsed from start of calling in the manual reset mode; and

call informing control means for starting the operation of each of said call informing means and for operating said timer means upon detecting a call for said selective pager receiver in accordance with an output from said detecting means, checking a state of said mode switching means in accordance with an output from said detecting means, checking a state of said mode switching means in accordance with an output from said timer means when said first predetermined duration has elapsed, checking a state of said setting means when said mode switching means is in a manual mode, and for stopping an operation of said call informing means selected by said setting means.

2. A receiver according to claim 1, wherein said setting means comprises a plurality of setting switches provided in a one-to-one correspondence with said plurality of call informing means.

3. A receiver according to claim 1, wherein said call informing means perform call informing operations by using an audible tone, light emission, vibration, and display.

4. A receiver according to claim 1, further comprising an auto reset timer, provided independently of said timer means, for automatically stopping the operation of each of said call informing means when the first predetermined duration has elapsed after start of calling in the auto reset mode wherein the second predetermined duration in the manual reset mode is different from the first predetermined duration in the auto reset mode.

5. A receiver according to claim 1, wherein said timer means is an auto reset timer for automatically stopping each of said call informing means when the first predetermined duration has elapsed after start of calling in the auto reset mode, wherein the first predetermined duration in the auto reset mode and the second predetermined duration in the manual reset mode are the same.

6. A selective pager receiver comprising:

a plurality of call informing means for informing a user of a call, said call informing means respectively performing different call informing information operations;

call informing detecting means for detecting a call for said selective pager receiver and for identifying a type of call in accordance with information included in a received radio signal and respective preassigned selective call numbers for an ordinary call and an emergency call of said selective pager receiver;

mode setting means for automatically setting one of an auto reset mode and a manual reset mode which respectively correspond to said ordinary call and said emergency call detected by said call informing detecting means;

operation setting means for setting selected ones of said call informing means for automatic operation termination in the manual reset mode;

timer means for automatically stopping the operation of any of said call informing means selected by said operation setting means when a predetermined duration has elapsed from start of calling in the manual reset mode; and

call informing control means for starting the operation of each of said call informing means and for operating said timer means upon detecting a call for said selective pager receiver in accordance with an output from said detecting means, checking a state of said mode setting means in accordance with an output from said detecting means, checking a state of said mode setting means in accordance with an output from said timer means when said predetermined duration has elapsed, checking a state of said setting means when said mode setting means is in a manual mode, and for stopping an operation of said call informing means selected by said setting means.

7. A receiver according to claim 6, wherein said call informing means perform call informing operations by using an audible tone, light emission, vibration, and display.

8. A receiver according to claims 6, wherein said setting means comprises a plurality of setting switches provided in a one-to-one correspondence with said plurality of call informing means.