Portable radio communication apparatus

• US 6,226,500 B1
• Filed: 07/13/1995
• Issued: 05/01/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nonami, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hunter, Daniel
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, PABLO N
• Application Number:
  US08/502,204
• Time in Patent Office: 2,119 Days
• Field of Search: 455/54.1, 455/89, 455/90, 455/95, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 455/347, 455/556, 455/566, 455/575, 455/536, 379/59, 379/58, 379/61, 379/67, 379/142, 379/88, 340/825.44
• US Class Current: 455/91
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72433 for voice messaging, e.g. dictaphones for answering incoming calls H04M1/64
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention aims at providing a portable radio communication apparatus in which forming of a message is easy. The portable radio communication apparatus is provided with a novel pre-message memory formed of a ROM or the like stored in which are fixed messages each consisting of fixed statements or fixed words as “CALL OFFICE AT XX:XX”. A transmitting message may be readily formed by selecting any of the fixed messages.

Claims

1. A portable radio communication apparatus comprising:

an antenna for transmitting/receiving a radio frequency message signal;

radio/modulator-demodulator means for demodulating a received radio frequency message signal by converting its frequency and for modulating a transmitting message signal to effect its frequency conversion into a radio frequency;

message memory means for storing transmitting/received messages;

display means for displaying said transmitting/received messages;

alphabet memory means for storing a plurality of linguistic alphabets;

selection means for selecting a predetermined alphabet;

control means for selecting any of said plurality of linguistic alphabets by said selection means; and

operation means for interacting with said control means so that said control means are further capable of selecting and transmitting a plurality of pre-messages composed of said predetermined alphabet by an operation of said operation means.

2. A portable radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alphabet memory means comprises a ROM for previously storing a plurality of linguistic alphabets, and

wherein said control means causes said display means to display the names of languages of the plurality of linguistic alphabets stored in said alphabet memory and selecting and confirming any of the plurality of linguistic alphabets by said selection means.

3. A portable radio communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said selection means comprises an operation section having:

a language selecting operation key;

an END key serving as a call terminating key; and

a volume key; and

wherein said control means selects a multi-lingual selecting function mode by an operation of said language selecting operation key;

selecting by an operation of said volume key any of a plurality of names of languages corresponding to the linguistic alphabets stored in said alphabet memory means displayed on said display means; and

confirming the selected linguistic alphabet by an operation of said END key.

4. A portable radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alphabet memory means comprises a ROM for previously storing a plurality of linguistic alphabets, and

wherein said control means causes said display means to display the names of languages of the plurality of linguistic alphabets stored in said alphabet memory means and selecting and confirming any of the plurality of linguistic alphabets by said selection means;

and

wherein said control means forms a message in said selected language while displaying on said display means the linguistic alphabet of said selected language name.

5. A portable radio communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said selection means comprises an operation section having:

a language selecting operation key; and

END key serving as a call terminating key;

a volume key; and

an alphabetic symbol selection key; and

wherein said control means selects a multilingual selecting function mode by an operation of said language selecting operation key;

selecting by an operation of said volume key any of a plurality of names of languages corresponding to the linguistic alphabets stored in said alphabet memory means displayed on said display means; and

confirming the selected linguistic alphabet by an operation of said END key; and

wherein said control means also selects a character input mode by an operation of said alphabetic symbol selection key;

selecting desired alphabetic letters while displaying on said display means a string of the alphabet of said selected language name by an operation of said volume key; and

forming a message in said selected language by confirming said selected alphabetic letters by an operation said END key.

6. A portable radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said alphabet memory means comprises a ROM for previously storing a plurality of linguistic alphabets, and

wherein said control means inputting a home system information by said selection means and selects and confirming any of the plurality of linguistic alphabets stored in said alphabet memory in accordance with a nationality-based management table.

7. A portable radio communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said selection means comprises an IC card interface section capable of mounting a subscriber ID card;

and

wherein said control means inputting the home system information from said subscriber ID card through said IC card interface section, selects and confirming any of the plurality of linguistic alphabets stored in said alphabet memory means in accordance with a nationality information obtained from the home system information against the nationality-based management table, and displaying said selected language on said display means.

8. In a portable radio communication apparatus for receiving voice transmissions and for receiving information and producing visible displays in response thereto and comprising a telephone keyboard with indicia corresponding to respective keys, operating keys and a telephone display, means for composing a message for transmission comprising:

control means;

pre-message memory means for storing selectable groups of text characters for inclusion in a message;

a message memory;

pre-message means including said operating keys and control means for selecting a group of text characters from said pre-message memory in accordance with keystrokes and displaying said group of text characters on said display and storing a copy of said group of text characters in said message memory;

character entry means including the keyboard and said control means for selecting text characters corresponding to indicia on the keyboard and displaying said text characters on the display and entering said text characters in said message memory in a preselected order with respect to said group of text characters; and

send means comprising a key and said control means for accessing a message from said message memory and transmitting the message from said portable telecommunication apparatus.