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Two-way pager for providing communication of alphanumeric messages over the GSM/GPRS network

  • US 6,731,942 B1
  • Filed: 03/04/1999
  • Issued: 05/04/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A two-way pager for communicating over a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM/GPRS) network, the pager comprising:

  • a front-end component for transmitting GSM/GPRS responses to and receiving GSM/GPRS messages from the GSM/GPRS network;

    an antenna electrically coupled to the front-end component for radiating radio frequency waves and for receiving radio frequency waves;

    a communications driver component which converts a GSM/GPRS message received by the front-end component which is formatted in accordance with a GSM/GPRS standard into a pager message, a data processing component which receives the pager message from and outputs pager answers to the communications driver component, the data processing component comprising a processor which processes the pager message and generates a pager response to the pager message, the pager response being converted by the communications driver into a GSM/GPRS response formatted in accordance with the GSM/GPRS standard and output to the front-end component for transmission overt he GSM/GPRS network, the data processing component comprising a memory device and other data to be used by the processor which stores code to be executed by the processor, and a user interface component which enables a user of the pager to interface with the data processing component, the user interface comprising an input device which enables a user to enter input data into the user interface component, the user interface component comprising a display which enables information received by the user interface component from the data processing component to be displayed to the user, the user interface component comprising an alert device which provides an alert indication when a GSM/GPRS message is received by the pager;

    wherein each GSM/GPRS message received by the pager includes one or more steering codes, said steering code of the message indicates that a reply to the message must include a response from the user, and said data processing component is further operable to recognize the steering code and to force the reply to the message to include the response identified by the steering code.

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