Electronic pocket notebook-type pager

• US 5,627,525 A
• Filed: 08/01/1994
• Issued: 05/06/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Motohashi, Teruyuki, Kudoh, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A
• Application Number:
  US08/284,049
• Time in Patent Office: 1,009 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.44, 340/825.47, 340/825.27, 340/311.1, 379/96, 379/57, 364/705.5, 455/38.1
• US Class Current: 340/7.52
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/228 combined with other devices having a different main function, e.g. watches

Abstract

A display-equipped radio pager according to the present invention provides a detecting circuit 6 to detect keywords which are distinguished by a specific mark such as double quotation marks for each message received, and another detecting circuit to detect whether the received keyword is already registered in the memory or not. The pager also provides a registering circuit to automatically register the received data related to the keyword into the memory. When a signal including its own call number is received, a call alert is issued, and a display means 8 displays a message included within that signal on a display 9. In addition, when a keyword is detected, the detecting circuit 14 detects whether the received keyword within that message is already registered in the memory or not and, if the same keyword is detected, a registering circuit 15 then registers the data related to the keyword within the message into the memory 10 as additional data.

Claims

1. A display-equipped radio pager comprising:

a display;

means for inputting a keyword and corresponding data to said radio pager, said keyword being distinguished by a predetermined mark;

a memory in which keywords and data are registered;

a first register means for registering inputted keywords and data in said memory;

a first display controller means for displaying inputted keywords and data registered within the memory;

a first detection means for detecting keywords contained within a received paging message;

a second detection means for detecting whether a keyword which is detected by the first detection means is previously registered in the memory;

a second register means for registering in the memory the data received with the keyword detected by the first detection means, the data being added to previously registered data corresponding to said keyword when the second detection means detects that the data received with said keyword is not previously registered; and

a second display controller means for displaying, with a mark indicating newly automatically registered data, the data registered by the second register means, together with the previously registered data corresponding to said keyword.

2. A display-equipped radio pager as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radio pager further includes a third display controller means to display marks indicating whether the data displayed by said second display controller means are data registered through said inputting means or automatically registered from the received paging message.

3. A display-equipped radio pager as claimed in claim 1, wherein said keywords include information regarding date, time and day of the week.

4. A display-equipped radio pager as claimed in claim 3, wherein said radio pager further includes:

a fourth display controller means for displaying a mark on a received data indicating that a designated time and date of the received data are occupied by another appointment when the time and date are detected in said memory by said second detection means and displaying another mark indicating that the designated time and date are newly registered in said memory when the designated time and date are not detected in said memory by said second detection means.

5. A display-equipped radio pager as claimed in claim 4, wherein the radio pager further includes an alert means for alerting by a first tone and/or flash to notify a user when the designated time and date are previously occupied and a second tone and/or flash to notify the user that the designated time and date are newly registered.