Radio selective calling receiver having telephone directory function

• US 6,339,710 B1
• Filed: 12/19/1997
• Issued: 01/15/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Suzuki, Katsuroh
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL
• Application Number:
  US08/995,264
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 Days
• Field of Search: 455/415, 455/458, 455/435, 455/38.1, 455/412, 340/825.44, 340/7.52, 340/7.55
• US Class Current: 455/458
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/227 with call or message storage means
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/228 combined with other devices having a different main function, e.g. watches
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 with message or information receiving capability

Abstract

A radio selective calling receiver which has a telephone directory memory for storing telephone directory data constituted by a telephone number and a name and, upon receiving a message from a partner corresponding to the telephone number stored in the telephone directory memory, displays telephone directory data corresponding to the telephone number includes a unit for extracting the telephone number and the name from the received message and registering the telephone number and the name in the telephone directory memory as the telephone directory data.

Claims

1. A radio selective calling receiver which has a telephone directory memory for storing telephone directory data constituted by a telephone number and a name and, upon receiving a message from a partner corresponding to the telephone number stored in said telephone directory memory, displays telephone directory data corresponding to the telephone number, comprising:

means for determining whether the received message has a predetermined telephone directory registration format constituted by a telephone number and a name;

means for extracting the telephone directory data from the message having the telephone directory registration format and registering the telephone directory data in said telephone directory memory, and

means for extracting, from a message which has been received and stored in a message memory in the past and whose telephone directory data has not been registered, the telephone directory data from the message memory and registering the telephone directory data in said telephone directory memory.

2. A radio selective calling receiver which has a telephone directory memory for storing telephone directory data constituted by a telephone number and a name and, upon receiving a message from a partner corresponding to the telephone number stored in said telephone directory memory, displays telephone directory data corresponding to the telephone number, the radio selective calling receiver comprising:

means for extracting the telephone number and the name from the received message and registering the telephone number and the name in said telephone directory memory as the telephone directory data; and

means for extracting, from a message which has been received and stored in a message memory in the past and whose telephone directory data has not been registered, the telephone directory data from the message memory and registering the telephone directory data in said telephone directory memory.