Radio information bulletin board

• US 6,141,537 A
• Filed: 10/12/1999
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahari, Kunio
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsang, Fan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US09/416,620
• Time in Patent Office: 385 Days
• Field of Search: 455/412, 455/66, 455/517, 455/418, 455/41, 455/524, 455/466, 340/905
• US Class Current: 455/66.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/189 in combination with wireless systems selective distribution or broadcast in wireless communication networks H04W4/06

Abstract

A radio information bulletin board includes an information transmitter and receiver. Receiving from a portable radio information terminal a request for transmitting stored display information, the information transmitter and receiver reads the display information from a display information storage element, and transmits by radio the display information that is read to the portable radio information terminal originating the transmission request. The portable radio information terminal acquires the display information on the radio information bulletin board in a more useful and precise manner than when taking notes of the displayed information or when memorizing the displayed information while watching the display information.

Claims

1. A radio information bulletin board for displaying information simultaneously to a large number of people, the information being changeable in response to radio wave signals, the radio information bulletin board comprising:

information storing means for storing information;

stored information display means for displaying the information stored in said information storing means by reading the information from said information storing means; and

stored information transmitting means for reading, when receiving a stored information transmission request from a portable radio information terminal external to said radio information bulletin board, stored information from said information storing means, and for transmitting, by radio wave signals, the stored information read, to the portable radio information terminal originating the transmission request.

6. The radio information bulletin board according to claim 1 comprising information receiving means for receiving information transmitted from the portable radio information terminal, wherein said information storing means stores the information received from the portable radio information terminal.

7. A radio information bulletin board according to claim 6 comprising stored information title display means for displaying a list of stored information titles.

2. A radio information bulletin board comprising:

information storing means for storing information and including a plurality of information storage elements corresponding to different radio channels, respectively;

stored information transmitting means for reading, when receiving a stored information transmission request from external radio communications equipment, stored information from said information storing means, and for transmitting, by radio waves, the stored information read, to the external radio communications equipment originating the transmission request; and

stored information selecting means for selecting, when the external radio communications equipment transmits a transmission request for stored information in one of said plurality of information storage elements through the channel corresponding to one of said plurality of information storage elements, the information storage element corresponding to the channel associated with the transmission request, from said plurality of the information storage elements, and wherein said stored information transmitting means reads the stored information from the information storage element selected, and transmits the stored information read from the information storage element selected to the external radio communications equipment originating the transmission request.

3. A radio information bulletin board for displaying information, the information being changeable in response to radio wave signals, the radio information bulletin board comprising:

information storing means for storing information;

information receiving means for receiving information transmitted from a portable radio information terminal external to said radio information bulletin board, wherein said information storing means stores the information received from the portable radio information terminal;

stored information transmitting means for reading, when receiving a stored information transmission request from the portable radio information terminal, stored information from said information storing means, and for transmitting, by radio wave signals, the stored information read, to the portable radio information terminal originating the transmission request; and

means for tracking information storage capacity of the portable radio information terminal for storing received information and for varying quantity of the information read and transmitted to the portable radio information terminal in accordance with the information storage capacity of the portable radio information terminal.

4. A radio information bulletin board for displaying information, the information being changeable in response to radio wave signals, the radio information bulletin board comprising:

information storing means for storing information;

information receiving means for receiving information transmitted from a portable radio information terminal external to said radio information bulletin board, wherein said information storing means stores the information received from the portable radio information terminal; and

stored information transmitting means for reading, when receiving a stored information transmission request from the portable radio information terminal, stored information from said information storing means, and for transmitting, by radio wave signals, the stored information read, to the portable radio information terminal originating the transmission request, wherein the information to be stored is in a format selected from the group consisting of text, hypertext machine language, and JAVA.

5. A radio information bulletin board for displaying information, the information being changeable in response to radio wave signals, the radio information bulletin board comprising:

information storing means for storing information;

information receiving means for receiving information transmitted from a portable radio information terminal external to said radio information bulletin board, wherein said information storing means stores the information received from the portable radio information terminal;

stored information transmitting means for reading, when receiving a stored information transmission request from the portable radio information terminal, stored information from said information storing means, and for transmitting, by radio wave signals, the stored information read, to the portable radio information terminal originating the transmission request; and

a controller for controlling said stored information transmitting means and said information receiving means wherein, in response to a command from said controller, said information receiving means enters a state for receiving the radio wave signals for a period of fixed duration.