Wide area paging system having automatic service area log-in

• US 6,353,739 B1
• Filed: 12/20/1993
• Issued: 03/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Davis, Walter Lee
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Madeleine
• Application Number:
  US08/169,048
• Time in Patent Office: 2,997 Days
• Field of Search: 379/93.07, 379/170, 455/426, 455/428, 455/464, 455/466, 455/3.01, 455/455, 455/461, 358/442, 358/400, 358/468
• US Class Current: 455/428
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/022 One-way selective calling networks, e.g. wide area paging

Abstract

A combination pager and cordless telephone (40) has a receiver (414) for receiving paging signals including a location identifier associated with a geographic location (202) of a paging controller transmitting the paging signals. A decoder (416) coupled to the receiver (414) decodes the paging signals to recover a page and the location identifier. A memory (422, 423) stores the page and the location identifier identifying the geographic location (202) of the transceiver (40). A message processor (606), coupled to the memory (423), determines when a new location identifier is received; and a controller (420) couples to a home paging controller (10) in response to the message processor (606) determining that the new location identifier has been received. A transmitter (440), coupled to the controller (420, 430), transmits the new location identifier to the home paging controller (10) for informing the home paging controller (10) that the transceiver (40) is located in the new geographic location (210) indicated by the location identifier.

Claims

1. In a combination paging system and telephone system, a method for communicating comprising the steps of:

(a) transmitting paging signals comprising paging messages and a location identifier associated with a geographic location of the paging system transmitting the same on a first communication path at a first data rate;

(b) receiving location update signals from a transceiver on a second communication path at a second data rate indicating the geographic location of a transceiver transmitting its location identifier from another geographic location;

(c) decoding the location identifier incorporated in the location update signals and storing the location identifier identifying the geographic location of the transceiver transmitting same;

(d) receiving paging message;

(e) routing the paging messages addressed to the transceiver located in the other geographic location in response to the location identifier associated with the transceiver; and

(f) transmitting the paging messages addressed to the transceiver located in the geographic location of the paging system.