Pager having improved display for information service data

• US 6,233,432 B1
• Filed: 04/29/1998
• Issued: 05/15/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchiyama, Shigeru, Inukai, Shinichirou, Hishida, Toshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Taylor, Barry W
• Application Number:
  US09/069,470
• Time in Patent Office: 1,112 Days
• Field of Search: 455/38.4, 455/38.1, 455/158.4, 455/158.5, 455/566, 455/31.1, 455/31.2, 340/825.69, 340/825.44, 340/825.47, 340/825.5, 340/825.51, 340/825.52, 340/825.53, 340/825.54, 340/825.27, 340/827
• US Class Current: 340/7.2
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/227 with call or message storage means
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A pager includes a control section 103 converts information service data demodulated by a decoder 110 into data to be indicated on a display 101. The control section includes an information service data analysis section 201 which analyzes information service data included in a radio call signal received by broadcast transmission; a receiving area information storage section 205 which stores receiving area information; an information service application storage section 203 which stores an information service application; an information service application selection section 204 which selects the information service application according to receiving area information; and an information service application execution section 202 which executes the thus-selected information service application. Additionally, the selected information service application may be set so as to become specific according to receiving area information.

Claims

1. A pager for displaying received information in an organized and readily readable format, comprising:

an information service data analysis section that analyzes information service data included in a radio call signal received by broadcast transmission;

a receiving area information storage section that stores receiving area information;

an information service application storage section that stores a plurality of information service applications;

an information service application selection section that selects one of the information service applications from the information service application storage section according to the receiving area information obtained from the receiving area information storage section and the type of information service data received from the information service data analysis section;

an information service application execution section that executes the information service application selected by the information service application selection section and prepares display data from data received from the information service data analysis section formatted according to the executed information service application; and

a display section that receives the prepared display data from the information service application execution section and displays the prepared display data.

2. The pager as claimed in claim 1, wherein the receiving area information storage section is updated by means of the received information service data obtained from the information service data analysis section.

3. A pager for displaying received information in an organized and readily readable format, comprising:

an information service data analysis section that analyzes information service data included in a radio call signal received by broadcast transmission;

a receiving area information storage section that stores receiving area information;

an information service application storage section that stores a Plurality of information service applications;

an information service application selection section that selects one of the information service applications from the information service application storage section according to the receiving area information obtained from the receiving area information storage section and the type of information service data received from the information service data analysis section;

an information service application execution section that executes the information service application selected by the information service application selection section and prepares display data from data received from the information service data analysis section formatted according to the executed information service application;

a display section that receives the prepared display data from the information service application execution section and displays the prepared display data; and

,

an information service application setting section that provides a setting to the information service application execution section according to receiving area information received from the receiving area information storage section so that information pertinent to the receiving area is relatively more prominently displayed.

4. The pager as claimed in claim 3, wherein the receiving area information storage section is updated by means of the received information service data obtained from the information service data analysis section.

5. The pager as claimed in claim 3, wherein the information service application setting section is updated by means of the received information service data obtained from the information service data analysis section.

6. The pager as claimed in claim 3 wherein the receiving area information storage section is updated by means of the received information service data obtained from the information service data analysis section;

and

the information service application setting section is updated by means of the received information service data obtained from the information service data analysis section.