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User interface assembly, and associated method, for alerting placement of a call to a mobile station

  • US 6,745,054 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2002
  • Issued: 06/01/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a mobile station operable in a radio communication system at least to receive a call placed thereto by a calling party, the call originated by an originating station, the mobile station comprising a system receive part operable at least to detect placement of the call to the mobile station and to detect call information communicated to the mobile station during a communication session formed pursuant to the call, an improvement of a user interface assembly at least for alerting a user of the mobile station of placement of the call thereto, said user interface assembly comprising:

  • a local radio transmitter element positioned at the mobile station, said local radio transmitter coupled to the system receive part to receive indications of detection at the system receive part of the call placed thereto, said local radio transmitter for generating the local radio signals representative of the call termination and responsive to the detection at the mobile station of the placement of the call thereto, and the local radio signals further selectably representative of the call information communicated to the mobile station during the communication session;

    a caller identity detector coupled to the system receive part of the mobile station, said caller identity detector for detecting an indicia of an identity of the calling party;

    a database containing a listing of indicia of identities of selected calling parties indexed together with mnemonics associated with the selected calling parties;

    a signal generator coupled to said system receive part and to said caller identity detection to receive the indicia of the identity of the calling party, said signal generator for generating a selected signal of selected signal characteristics responsive to the detection at the mobile station of the placement of the call thereto, the selected signal characteristics of the selected signal selected responsive to a mnemonic associated with the indicia of the identity of the calling party contained in the listing and detected by said caller identity detector;

    a local radio receiver element positionable to receive local radio signals representative of call termination at the mobile station, the local radio signals generated responsive to detection at the mobile station of the call thereto;

    an aural annunciator coupled to said local radio receiver element by way of said local radio transmitter element, said aural annunciator, operable responsive to detection at said local radio receiver element of the placement of the call to the mobile station, for aurally annunciating, in a selected manner to the detection thereat of the call; and

    an earpiece for supporting said local radio receiver element and said aural annunciator, said earpiece, together with said local radio receiver element and said aural annunciator wearable by the user, positionable by the user to permit private alert through aural annunciation of said aural annunciator to the user of the detection of the call placed to the mobile station.

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