Radio paging receiver wherein a possessor thereof can freely set a selected call announcing mode in correspondence to every sender of a call

• US 6,157,318 A
• Filed: 12/29/1997
• Issued: 12/05/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Minata, Shigeki
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US08/998,625
• Time in Patent Office: 1,072 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.44, 340/825.37, 340/825.47, 340/825.22, 340/311.1, 455/38.1, 455/38.2
• US Class Current: 340/7.58
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 3/1025 Paging receivers with audible signalling details

Abstract

In a radio paging receiver for announcing, by the use of an announcing section (5) having a plurality of announcing modes, reception of a call generated by a particular sender, a memory section (8+9) memorizes, as memorized sender data, a plurality of sender data specifying a plurality of senders and memorizes, as memorized announcing mode data, a plurality of announcing mode data specifying the announcing modes of the announcing section in correspondence to the memorized sender data. Supplied with a radio signal carrying a particular sender datum specifying the particular sender, a processing section (1-4) processes the radio signal into the particular sender datum. Connected to the memory and the processing sections, a controlling section (7) controls the announcing section in response to the particular sender datum so that the announcing section announces the reception of the call in the announcing mode specified by a corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data. The corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data corresponds to the memorized sender datum which coincides with the particular sender datum. The controlling section controls the announcing section in response to the particular sender datum so that the announcing section does not announce the reception of the call in any of the announcing modes when none of the memorized sender data coincide with the particular sender datum.

Claims

1. A radio paging receiver which includes an announcing section having a plurality of announcing modes and which carries out a call announcement for announcing, by the use of said announcing section, reception of a call generated by a particular sender, said receiver comprising:

a re-programmable memory for setting and memorizing, as memorized sender data, a plurality of sender data input by the radio paging receiver user specifying the identification of each of a plurality of senders and for setting and memorizing, as memorized announcing mode data, a plurality of announcing mode data specifying the announcing modes of said announcing section in correspondence to said memorized sender data;

a processing section supplied with a radio signal carrying a particular sender datum specifying said particular sender for processing said radio signal into said particular sender datum; and

a controlling section connected to said re-programmable memory and said processing section for controlling said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section announces the reception of said call in the announcing mode specified by a corresponding one of said memorized announcing mode data, said corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data corresponding to the memorized sender datum which coincides with said particular sender datum.

2. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, said radio signal further carrying a specific call number which is specific to said receiver and which precedes said particular sender datum, wherein:

said processing section processes said radio signal into said particular sender datum when said processing section detects said specific call number.

3. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said controlling section controls said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section does not announce (Sa4, Sa9, Sb4, Sb11) the reception of said call in any of said announcing modes when none of said memorized sender data coincide with said particular sender datum.

4. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said controlling section controls said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section announces (Sa6, Sa10, Sb6, Sa12) the reception of said call in a predetermined mode of said announcing modes when no announcing mode datum is memorized in said memory in correspondence to the memorized sender datum which coincides with said particular sender datum.

5. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said memory further comprises re-programmable time memory for memorizing time zone data, a plurality of time zone data input by the radio paging receiver user specifying time zones in correspondence to said memorized sender data;

said controlling section controlling said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section announces the reception of said call in said corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data when a reception time of said particular sender datum is within the time zone specified by a corresponding one of said memorized time zone data, said corresponding one of the memorized time zone data corresponding to the memorized sender datum which coincides with said particular sender datum.

6. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 5, wherein:

said controlling section controls said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section does not announce (Sc7, Sc14) the reception of said call in any of said announcing modes when the reception time of said particular sender datum is out of the time zone specified by said corresponding one of the memorized time zone data.

7. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said memory further comprises re-programmable number memory for memorizing number data input by the radio paging receiver user, a plurality of number data in correspondence to said memorized sender data, each of said memorized number data specifying the number of times of reception of the sender datum corresponding to each of said memorized number data;

said controlling section controlling said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section announces the reception of said call in said corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data when the number of times of reception of said particular sender datum exceeds per a predetermined time interval the number of times specified by a corresponding one of said memorized number data, said corresponding one of the memorized number data corresponding to the memorized sender datum which coincides with said particular sender datum.

8. A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

said controlling section controls said announcing section in response to said particular sender datum so that said announcing section does not announce (Sd15, Sd17) the reception of said call in any of said announcing modes when the number of times of reception of said particular sender datum does not reach per said predetermined time interval the number of times specified by said corresponding one of the memorized number data.

9. A radio paging receiver having an announcing section with a plurality of announcing modes and which, by the use of said announcing section, carries out a call announcement for announcing reception of a call generated by a particular sender, said radio paging receiver comprising:

a re-programmable memory for setting and memorizing;

i) as memorized sender data, a plurality of sender data specifying the identification of each of a plurality of senders and ii) as memorized announcing mode data, a plurality of announcing mode data specifying the announcing modes of said announcing section in correspondence to the memorized sender data;

a processing section supplied with a radio signal carrying a particular sender datum specifying the particular sender for processing the radio signal into the particular sender datum; and

a controlling section connected to said memory and said processing section for controlling said announcing section in response to the particular sender datum so that said announcing section announces the reception of the call in the announcing mode specified by a corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data, the corresponding one of the memorized announcing mode data corresponding to the memorized sender datum which coincides with the particular sender datum,

wherein said re-programmable memory comprises a sender identity memory section for memorizing information to identify particular expected senders, and a call condition memory section for holding an announcing mode associated with each of the expected senders memorized in said sender identity memory section.

10. The radio paging receiver of claim 9, wherein the call condition memory section is designed and constructed so that a radio paging receiver user can selectively program said call condition memory section to either immediately announce a call from a first expected sender or to suspend announcement and hold a message from the first expected sender.