Voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system

• US 5,970,387 A
• Filed: 07/12/1996
• Issued: 10/19/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jinyan Yuan
• Original Assignee: Jinyan Yuan
• Inventors: Yuan, Jinyan
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH
• Application Number:
  US08/648,171
• Time in Patent Office: 1,194 Days
• Field of Search: 455/31.2, 455/31.3
• US Class Current: 340/7.28
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/185 Selective call encoders for paging networks, e.g. paging centre devices

Abstract

There is provided a voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system comprising a radio page central station and a plurality of pagers with voice and digit compatibility. The central station automatically captures a digit and voice information from a telephone network, automatically generates a radio page information based on a predetermined coding protocol, sets up a page information database. The page information is coded by a coder and is then sent by a transmitter in combination of voice and digit. The pager receives and stores the voice and digit information. The information can be repeatedly displayed. The system allows a digital pager to operate together with a pager having voice and digit compatibility in same network, whereby solved the problem that a paging system is not able to transfer an analog voice signal in the past.

Claims

1. A voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system capable of transmitting both voice and digit code signals within a single paging call, said system comprising a central radio paging station and a plurality of pagers, wherein said central radio paging station comprises a telephone line interface through which the central radio paging station is connected to a telephone line, a voice and digit processing means connected with the output of the telephone line interface, and a transmitter connected with the voice and digit processing means, said voice and digit processing means including a central processor, a disc storage, a program memory, a voice and digit interface unit, a voice and digit encoding unit connected to a bus, and the input of said transmitter being connected with the voice and digit encoding unit;

and said pagers include voice and digit compatible pagers capable of receiving voice and digit code signal, pure digit code signals and pure voice code signals, and capable of storing voice and digit information, pure digit pagers capable of receiving only pure digit code signal, and pure voice pagers capable of receiving only pure voice code signals;

wherein the voice and digit interface unit is connected to said telephone line interface, for, under the control of the central processor, reading from said disc storage a voice prompt signal, sending the voice prompt signal to the telephone line, then receiving digital code and analog voice signals issued from a telephone, converting the received digital code to computer inner code, converting the received analog voice signal into a corresponding digitized signals and storing the converted code and digitized signals in the disc storage;

said central processor hybridly encodes the converted code and digitized voice signals to produce a digital paging signal, to establish a paging information queue and storing the same in the disc storage;

said voice and digit encoding unit converts the digital paging signal produced by the central processor into a radio paging code signal and transmits the radio paging code signal via the transmitter under the control of the central processor, and wherein the paging signal output from said voice and digit processing means is constituted by a prefix code T1, digital information frames T2 led by a frame synchronization code, and analog information frames T3 led by an idle code, the length of the analog information frames T3 being variable;

the order of the paging signal is;

T1, T2, - - - T3, - - - T1, the analog information frames being followed by another prefix code T1 indicating the end of the analog information frame; and

the length of the analog frame T3 may be zero, the address code of said digital information frame T2 including functional bits indicating whether it is followed by analog information frame and the type of the paging information.

2. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 1, wherein said voice and digit encoding unit converts said encoded digitized voice signals in said digital paging signal produced by said central processor into an analog voice signal when it converts the digital paging signal into a radio paging code signal.

3. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 2, wherein said disc storage is connected with the bus, and the information received by said voice and digit interface unit and a paging information library established with the paging type information are stored therein and are then transmitted via said voice and digit processing means and the transmitter under the control of said central processor;

and wherein, for information of message type, said voice and digit processing means transmits a digital paging indicating that there is a message to inform a subscriber and allow the subscriber inquiring the message via a telephone; and

for inquiry information, said voice and digital processing means searches the relative information from the disc storage and output the same via said voice and digit interface unit and said telephone line interface to the subscriber in response to an inquiry request of the subscriber.

4. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 2, wherein said voice and digit encoding unit comprises an input/output interface, a voice synthesizer, a paging coder, an amplifier circuit, a level conversion circuit and a switching circuit connected to the bus, said paging coder converting the digital paging signal into a radio paging code signal and sending it to a modulating circuit via said level conversion circuit and said switching circuit under the control of the central processor, said voice synthesizer converting the digital voice signal into an analog voice signal and sending it to said modulating circuit via said amplifier circuit and said switching circuit under the control of the central processor, and wherein the input of said input/output interface is connected to the bus and its output is connected with the control signal terminal of said switching circuit to control the selection of the analog signal and the digital signal and send the selected one to the modulating circuit.

5. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 2, wherein said voice and digit compatible pager comprises a receiver, a signal processing unit, a microprocessor, a voice recording/reproducing unit and a display, a memory, an operating switch, an alert circuit and a power supply circuit connected to the microprocessor;

the output terminal of said receiver means is connected to the signal processing unit, the signal processing unit outputting a digital signal to the microprocessor and an analog signal to the input terminal of the voice recording/reproducing unit, the control terminal of the voice recording/reproducing unit being connected with the microprocessor and its output terminal connected to a speaker;

said voice and digit compatible pager operating according to an operation flow of the voice and digit compatible pager under the control of the microprocessor; and

wherein said voice and digit compatible pager receives the paging digital signal matching its own address code and stores the same in said memory and meanwhile decodes functional bits of the address code to determine whether there are analog information frames;

if yes, then it begins to receive and store an analog voice signal after receiving the analog information frame leading code, and begins to receive the analog information frame ending indicator and stops receiving the analog information and issues an alerting signal to the subscriber after receiving the analog information frame ending indicator.

6. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 2, wherein said signal processing unit includes a filter circuit and a shaping circuit;

the analog signal output from the filter circuit is input to said voice recording/reproducing unit; and

the digital signal output from said shaping circuit is fed to said microprocessor.

7. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 5, wherein said voice recording/reproducing unit includes a voice synthesizer and a memory connected with said microprocessor, a switching circuit connected with the voice synthesizer, a power amplifier circuit connected with said switching circuit and to said speaker;

the output terminal of said filter circuit is connected respectively with the signal input terminal of said voice synthesizer and the input terminal of said switching circuit; and

wherein when said voice and digit compatible pager receives analog voice paging, said microprocessor decodes the functional bits of the address code and controls said voice synthesizer to convert the analog signal into digital signal and store it in said memory;

when said voice and digit compatible pager receives a digital voice paging, said microprocessor decodes the functional bits of the addressing code and stores the digital voice signal in said memory;

when the inquiry switch of said operating switches of said voice and digit compatible pager is depressed, said microprocessor controls said voice synthesizer to read data from the memory and synthesize the data into an analog voice signal and output it via the switching circuit and power amplifier circuit; and

when said voice and digit compatible pager receives a voice broadcast, said microprocessor decodes the functional bits of the address code and controls said switching circuit to let the received voice broadcast signal be output via said switching circuit and said power amplifier circuit such that the radio broadcast signal can be received by the voice and digit compatible pager.

8. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 5, wherein said voice recording/reproducing unit is an analog voice recording/reproducing integrated circuit, the signal input terminal and the auxiliary input terminal of which is connected to the output terminal of said filter circuit, the audio signal output terminal of which is connected to said speaker, and the control signal line of which is connected with said microprocessor;

and wherein when said voice and digit compatible pager receives an analog voice paging, said microprocessor decodes functional bits of the address code and controls to store the received analog voice signal in said analog voice recording/reproducing integrated circuit;

when the inquiry switch of said operating switches of said voice and digit compatible pager is depressed, said microprocessor controls said analog voice recording/reproducing integrated circuit to output the voice information store therein at its audio signal output terminal;

when said voice and digit compatible pager receives a voice broadcast signal, said microprocessor decodes the functional bits of the address code, issues an alert signal and controls said analog voice recording/reproducing integrated circuit to output the analog voice signal at its auxiliary input terminal from its output terminal such that said voice and digit compatible pager can receive the voice broadcast signal.

9. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 2, wherein said voice and digit processing means is a processor capable of transmitting voice broadcast signal via the transmitter and said voice and digit compatible pager is a pager capable of receiving the voice broadcast signal.

10. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 7, wherein said voice and digit processing means is a processor capable of transmitting voice broadcast signal via the transmitter and said voice and digit compatible pager is a pager capable of receiving the voice broadcast signal.

11. The voice and digit compatible fully automatic radio paging system according to claim 8, wherein said voice and digit processing means is a processor capable of transmitting voice broadcast signal via the transmitter and said voice and digit compatible pager is a pager capable of receiving the voice broadcast signal.