Mobile terminal having user-actuated pager mode
First Claim
1. A method for operating a wireless terminal of a type that is bidirectionally coupled to a network by a single transceiver through a wireless interface for conducting voice and message-based communications, comprising the steps of:
- in response to input from a user, disabling the wireless terminal from receiving a voice call through the single transceiver; and
after disabling wireless terminal from receiving said voice call, periodically and automatically enabling the wireless terminal, a predetermine interval of time, to receive and store at least one user message, the user message being received through the single transceiver from a network.
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for operating a cellular telephone that includes a first step, executed in response to input from a user, of disabling the cellular telephone from receiving cellular telephone calls. A second step then periodically enables the cellular telephone to receive, store and display user-related messages from a network control channel. In one embodiment the step of disabling includes a step of de-registering the cellular telephone from the network, and the step of periodically enabling includes an initial step of re-registering the cellular telephone with the network. The step of disabling may include a step of reducing the power consumption of the cellular telephone. In accordance with a further aspect of this invention the step of periodically enabling includes an initial step of requesting the network to assign the cellular telephone to a predetermined paging frame class that insures that the cellular telephone will receive a paging message from the network every n seconds. The step of periodically enabling thus further includes the step of placing the cellular telephone in a low power mode of operation for n-x seconds, where x is a period of time at least equal to a time required to resynchronize the cellular telephone to the network control channel.
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23 Claims
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1. A method for operating a wireless terminal of a type that is bidirectionally coupled to a network by a single transceiver through a wireless interface for conducting voice and message-based communications, comprising the steps of:
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in response to input from a user, disabling the wireless terminal from receiving a voice call through the single transceiver; and after disabling wireless terminal from receiving said voice call, periodically and automatically enabling the wireless terminal, a predetermine interval of time, to receive and store at least one user message, the user message being received through the single transceiver from a network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A wireless terminal of a type that is bidirectionally coupled to a network by a single transceiver through a wireless interface for conducting voice and message-based communications, comprising;
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user interface means; means, responsive to input from a user at said user interface means, for disabling the wireless terminal from receiving a voice call through the single transceiver; and means, responsive to said disabling means disabling the wireless terminal from receiving said voice call, for periodically and automatically enabling said wireless terminal, a predetermined interval of time to receive at least one user message through the single transceiver from a network, and for storing and displaying at least one user message. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for operating a wireless terminal capable of transceiving both voice-based and message-based communications through a single transceiver;
- comprising the steps of;
in response to input from a user, disabling the wireless terminal from receiving voice calls though the single transceiver; and after disabling wireless terminal from receiving said voice call, periodically and automatically enabling the wireless terminal, a predetermine interval of time, to only receive and store, through the single transceiver, at least one user message from a network. - View Dependent Claims (23)
- comprising the steps of;
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