Radio communication device with flexible indicating function

• US 6,552,651 B2
• Filed: 05/07/1999
• Issued: 04/22/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ide, Motoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Vivian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Moore, James K
• Application Number:
  US09/306,633
• Publication Number:
  US 20020113688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: 340/7.55, 340/7.51, 340/7.1, 340/7.2, 340/7.28, 340/7.56, 340/7.43, 340/7.52, 455/566, 455/550, 455/575, 455/567
• US Class Current: 340/7.55
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/225 Display details

Abstract

A radio communication device enables a message received to be displayed by flexible format. The selective-calling receiver as a receiver comprises a radio section for demodulating the selective-calling signal with it received, a calling number storage section for storing therein a plurality of self-selective-calling numbers, an agreement detector for detecting whether or not demodulated selective-calling signal agrees with which one of the plurality of self-selective-calling signal, a memory for storing therein a plurality of calling separation information for separating whether message information following to self-selective-calling number and selective-calling number agreeing to be detected agree with which one of the plurality of self-selective-calling numbers, a indicator for displaying the message information, and a display measure for permitting message information within the memory to display on the indicator, wherein the display measure permits the message information to display on the indicator in accordance with prescribed display format determined beforehand in every selective-calling number.

Claims

1. A radio communication device comprising:

a radio section for receiving a selective-calling signal and message information wherein said selective-calling signal and said message information are demodulated as a received selective-calling number and a received message respectively;

a calling number storage section for storing therein a plurality of selective calling numbers;

a detector, connected to said calling number storage and said radio section, for detecting an agreement between said received selective-calling number and one of said plurality of selective calling numbers;

a memory for storing a plurality of display formats corresponding to said plurality of selective calling numbers;

an indicator for displaying said received message; and

a display means, connected to said detector, said memory and said indicator, for selecting, from said plurality of display formats stored in said memory, a corresponding display format corresponding to said received selective-calling number, and displaying said received message on said indicator in said corresponding display format when said detector detects said agreement between said received selective calling number and said one of said plurality of selective calling numbers,

wherein at least one of the display formats is based on characteristics of the indicator, said characteristics including the number of digits of the indicator.

2. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of display formats includes a first format, a number of digits of which conforms with said indicator, and said display means does not perform a line feed according to a line feed code within said received message.

3. A radio communication device according to claim 2, wherein said display means, when receiving a prescribed character string, changes said corresponding display format into a different one of said plurality of display formats.

4. A radio communication device according to claim 3, wherein the different display format corresponds to a display format assigned to said character string.

5. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of display formats includes a display format for which said display means counts a number of digits of said received message, and when the number of digits of said received message is either smaller than or equal to a number of digits of said indicator, said display means permits said received message to be displayed on said indicator, line-feeding by a line feed code, while when the number of digits of said received message is larger than the number of digits of said indicator, said display means permits all of said received message to be displayed on said indicator, scrolling in a lateral direction.

6. A radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein said display means, when receiving a prescribed character string, changes said corresponding display format into a different one of said plurality of display formats.

7. A radio communication device according to claim 6, wherein the different display format corresponds to a display format assigned to said character string.

8. A radio communication device comprising:

a radio section for receiving a selective-calling signal and message information wherein said selective-calling signal and said message information are demodulated as a received selective-calling number and a received message respectively;

a calling number storage section for storing therein a plurality of selective calling numbers;

a detector, connected to said calling number storage and said radio section, for detecting an agreement between said received selective-calling number and one of said plurality of selective calling numbers;

a memory for storing a plurality of display formats corresponding to said plurality of selective calling numbers;

an indicator for displaying said received message; and

a display means, connected to said detector, said memory and said indicator, for selecting, from said plurality of display formats stored in said memory, a corresponding display format corresponding to said received selective-calling number, and displaying said received message on said indicator in said corresponding display format when said detector detects said agreement between said received selective calling number and said one of said plurality of selective calling numbers,

wherein said plurality of display formats includes a format for which said display means counts a number of digits of said received message, and when the number of digits of said received message is either smaller than or equal to a number of digits of said indicator, said display means permits said received message to be displayed on said indicator, line-feeding by a line feed code, while when the number of digits of said received message is larger than the number of digits of said indicator, said display means permits all of said received message to be displayed on said indicator, scrolling in a lateral direction.

9. A radio communication device according to claim 8, wherein said display means, when receiving a prescribed character string, changes said corresponding display format into a different one of said plurality of display formats corresponding to said character string at a point halfway through the character string.

10. A radio communication device according to claim 8, wherein said display means, when receiving a prescribed character string, changes said corresponding display format into a different one of said plurality of display formats.

11. A radio communication device according to claim 10, wherein the different display format corresponds to a display format assigned to said character string.

12. A radio communication device comprising:

a radio section for receiving a selective-calling signal and message information wherein said selective-calling signal and said message information are demodulated as a received selective-calling number and a received message respectively;

a calling number storage section for storing therein a plurality of selective calling numbers;

a detector, connected to said calling number storage and said radio section, for detecting an agreement between said received selective-calling number and one of said plurality of selective calling numbers;

a memory for storing a plurality of display formats corresponding to said plurality of selective calling numbers;

an indicator for displaying said received message; and

a display means, connected to said detector, said memory and said indicator, for selecting, from said plurality of display formats stored in said memory, a corresponding display format corresponding to said received selective-calling number, and displaying said received message on said indicator in said corresponding display format when said detector detects said agreement between said received selective calling number and said one of said plurality of selective calling numbers,

wherein said display means, when receiving a prescribed character string, changes said corresponding display format into a different one of said plurality of display formats corresponding to said character string at a point halfway through the character string.

13. A radio communication device comprising:

a radio section for receiving a selective-calling signal and message information wherein said selective-calling signal and said message information are demodulated as a received selective-calling number and a received message respectively;

a calling number storage section for storing therein a plurality of selective calling numbers;

a detector, connected to said calling number storage and said radio section, for detecting an agreement between said received selective-calling number and one of said plurality of selective calling numbers;

a memory for storing a plurality of display formats corresponding to said plurality of selective calling numbers;

an indicator for displaying said received message; and

a display means, connected to said detector, said memory and said indicator, for selecting, from said plurality of display formats stored in said memory, a corresponding display format corresponding to said received selective-calling number, and displaying said received message on said indicator in said corresponding display format when said detector detects said agreement between said received selective calling number and said one of said plurality of selective calling numbers,

wherein said plurality of display formats includes a first format, a number of digits of which conforms with said indicator, and said display means does not perform a line feed according to a line feed code within said received message, and

wherein said display means, when receiving a prescribed character string, changes said corresponding display format into a different one of said plurality of display formats corresponding to said character string at a point halfway through the character string.