Radio selective calling receiver having an auto-dialer function

• US 6,049,696 A
• Filed: 12/10/1997
• Issued: 04/11/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ishida, Takayasu
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE
• Application Number:
  US08/988,090
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• Field of Search: 455/31.2, 455/31.3, 455/564, 340/825.44, 340/311.1, 340/313
• US Class Current: 340/7.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/022 Selective call receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 with message or information receiving capability

Abstract

In a radio selective calling receiver, a control section 103 has a DTMF signal generating section 103F that converts a transmit message into a dial tone signal to output the dial tone signal. A CPU section 103B of the control section 103 can transmit a message from the DTMF signal generating section 103F in the state that a message received from another receiver is read from a RAM section 103C and displayed on a display section 10, and at this time stores the receive message and the transmit message in association with each other in the RAM section 103C. When reading the receive message, the transmit message corresponding to the receive message is also displayed on the display section 107.

Claims

1. A radio selective calling receiver, comprising:

a tone dialer for converting a first message to be transmitted into a dial tone signal to output the dial tone signal; and

a control section having a memory for storing the first message in association with a second message which has been already received from another receiver in said memory, when the first message is transmitted as a reply to the second message, such that the first and second messages can be simultaneously read from said memory and displayed.

2. A radio selective calling receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control section comprises means for transmitting the first message in a state where the second message received from another receiver is displayed on a display section;

wherein the second message and the first message are stored in the memory in association with each other.

3. A radio selective calling receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the case where said control section is instructed to erase the second message stored in said memory, said control section erases the second message as well as the first message associated with the second message.

4. A receiving device, comprising:

a receive section for receiving a message;

a memory for storing the message received by said receive section;

a display section for displaying the message stored in said memory;

a transmit section for transmitting a reply message to the message received by said receive section; and

a control section for storing the receive message and the corresponding reply message in association with each other in said memory, when the corresponding reply message is transmitted by said transmit section, such that the receive message and the corresponding reply message can be simultaneously read from said memory and displayed.

5. A receiving device as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the reply message is transmitted said control section numbers the reply message and stores the reply message number together with the reply message in said memory, and said control section adds the reply message number to the corresponding received message and stores the reply message number together with the corresponding received message in said memory such that the receive message and the corresponding reply message can be simultaneously read from said memory using the reply message number so that the receive message and the corresponding reply message are displayed.

6. A receiving device as claimed in claim 5, wherein in displaying the receive message in said display section, when the reply message number is given to the receive message, said control section displays the reply message corresponding to the reply message number.

7. A receiving device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said control section enters a reply message production mode in response to the operation for entering the reply message production mode during displaying of the receive message.

8. A receiving device as claimed in claim 6, further comprising an operating section for conducting the operation of erasing the receive message.

9. A receiving device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the reply message is erased together with the receive message in response to the operation of said operating section.

10. A receiving device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said transmit means comprises a DTMF signal generating device.

11. A receiving device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said receiving device comprises a radio selection paging receiver.

12. A receiving device as claimed in claim 11, wherein said receiving device comprises a pager.

13. A method of controlling a message in a receiving device, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving a message;

storing the message as received;

displaying the message as received;

transmitting a reply message to the message as received; and

storing the receive message and the corresponding reply message in a memory in association with each other, when the corresponding reply message is transmitted by the receiving device, such that the message as received and the reply message can be simultaneously read from said memory and displayed.

14. A method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising the steps of converting reply message into a DTMF signal;

and transmitting the DTMF signal.

15. A method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising the steps of:

giving a number to the reply message when transmitting the reply message; and

storing the given number in correspondence with the receive message and the reply message.

16. A method as claimed in claim 15, wherein when there is a corresponding number when displaying the receive message, the reply message corresponding to the receive message is also displayed.