Pager terminal apparatus and radio pager system employing the same

Claim 2

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said message displaying means comprises converting means for converting said message specifying information to a message specified by said message specifying information, and displaying means for displaying said message supplied by said converting means.

Claim 3

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said converting means comprises storage means for storing a message converting table including a plurality of pairs of said message specifying information and a message specified by said message specifying information, said message specifying information included in said message converting table being different from each other, means for locating the message specifying information which coincides with said message specifying information extracted by said extracting means within said message converting table, and means for retrieving said message associated with said located message specifying information from said storage means.

Claim 4

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said storage means comprises rewritable storage means.

Claim 5

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising connecting means for detachably connecting storage means with said converting means, said storage means being for storing a message converting table including a plurality of pairs of said message specifying information and a message specified by said message specifying information,, said message specifying information included in said message converting table being different from each other, wherein said converting means includes means coupled to said storage means by said connecting means for locating message specifying information which coincides with said message specifying information extracted by said extracting means within said message converting table, and means connected to said storage means by said connecting means for retrieving said message associated with said located message specifying information from said storage means.

Claim 6

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising: destination information storage means for storing said destination information associated with a predetermined destination; manually operable keyboard means capable of generating a desired signal sequence; transmission signal generating means for generating a signal to be transmitted including said message specifying information assigned by said signal sequence generated by said keyboard means and said destination information stored in said destination information storage means; and transmission means for transmitting said signal to be transmitted to a pager signal base prepared in advance in order to radio-transmit said pager signal over a predetermined signal line in accordance with a predetermined protocol.

Claim 7

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said predetermined signal line includes a public telephone line.

Claim 8

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said transmission means includes means for converting said signal to be transmitted into a sound modulated by said transmission signal, and said transmission signal modulated into said sound is supplied to a handset of a telephone connected to said public telephone line.

Claim 9

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said destination information storage means stores a plurality of said destination information.

Claim 10

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising means responsive to a specific signal sequence generated by said keyboard means for selecting one of said plurality of destination information stored in said destination information storage means, and supplying the same to said transmission signal generating means.

Claim 11

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising means for supplying said message specifying information assigned by said signal sequence generated by said keyboard means to said converting means, wherein the message supplied by said converting means based on said message specifying information is displayed by said displaying means.

Claim 12

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising table writing means for writing said desired message converting table in said rewritable storage means.

Claim 13

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said table writing means comprises: manually operable keyboard means for generating a desired signal sequence; means responsive to the output of said keyboard means for generating a pair of designated message specifying information and a corresponding message; and means for writing said generated pair into said converting table of said rewritable storage means.

Claim 14

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising means for supplying said generated pair of message specifying information and the message to said message displaying means to display the same.

Claim 15

The pager terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means responsive to said detection signal for calling the operators attention.

Claim 16

A radio pager system comprising: a station for transmitting a pager signal including destination information representing the destination and message information to be transmitted to said destination; transmission terminal apparatus for supplying said destination information and said message information to said station; and pager terminal apparatus for receiving said pager signal and for presenting a message based on the message information included in said received pager signal when said received pager signal is destined for said pager terminal apparatus said pager terminal apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving an incoming pager signal; detection means for detecting that said received pager signal is a signal transmitted to said pager terminal apparatus, and supplying a predetermined detection signal based on said destination information included in the pager signal received by said receiving means; extracting means responsive to said detection signal for extracting message specifying information for specifying said message from said message information of said pager signal received by said receiving means; and message displaying means responsive to said message specifying information extracted by said extracting means for displaying the message specified by said message specifying information in a visually recognizable manner.

Claim 17

The radio pager system according to claim 16, wherein said message displaying means of said pager terminal apparatus comprises converting means for converting said message specifying information to a message specified by said message specifying information, and displaying means for displaying said message supplied by said converting means.

Claim 18

The radio pager system according to claim 17, wherein said converting means of said pager terminal apparatus comprises storage means for storing a message converting table including a plurality of pairs of said message specifying information and the message specified by said message specifying information, said message specifying information included in said message converting table being different from each other, means for locating message specifying information which coincides with said message specifying information extracted by said extracting means within said message converting table, and means for retrieving said message associated with said located message specifying information from said storage means.

Claim 19

The radio pager system according to claim 18, wherein said storage means comprises rewritable storage means.

Claim 20

The radio pager system according to claim 17, wherein said pager terminal apparatus further comprises connecting means for detachably connecting a storage means for storing a message converting table including a plurality of pairs of said message specifying information and the message specified by said message specifying information which are associated with each other in advance, with said converting means, said message specifying information included in said message converting table being different from each other, and said converting means comprises means connected to said storage means by said connecting means for locating message specifying information which coincides with said message specifying information extracted by said extracting means, within said message converting table, and means connected to said storage means by said connecting means for retrieving said message associated with said located message specifying information from said storage means.

Claim 21

The radio pager system according to claim 16, wherein said transmission terminal apparatus comprises converting means for converting said message specifying information into a message specified by said message specifying information, displaying means for displaying said message supplied by said converting means, destination information storage means for storing said destination information associated with a predetermined destination, manually operable keyboard means capable of generating a desired signal sequence, transmission signal generating means for generating a signal to be transmitted including said message specifying information designated by said signal sequence generated by said keyboard means and said destination information stored in said destination information storage means, and transmission means for transmitting said signal to be transmitted to said station over a predetermined signal line in accordance with a predetermined protocol.

Claim 22

The radio pager system according to claim 21, wherein said predetermined signal line comprises a public telephone line.

Claim 23

The radio pager system according to claim 22, wherein said transmission means of said transmission terminal apparatus comprises means for converting said signal to be transmitted into a sound modulated by said signal to be transmitted, and said signal to be transmitted converted into said sound is supplied to a handsed of a telephone connected to said public telephone line.

Claim 24

The radio pager system according to claim 21, wherein said destination information storage means stores a plurality of said destination information.

Claim 25

The radio pager system according to claim 24, wherein said transmission terminal apparatus further comprises means responsive to a specific signal sequence generated by said keyboard means for selecting one of said destination information stored in said destination information storage means and supplying the same to said transmission signal generating means.

Claim 26

The radio pager system according to claim 21, wherein said transmission terminal apparatus further comprises means for supplying said message specifying information designated by the signal sequence generated by said keyboard means, to said converting means, and the message supplied by said converting means based on said message specifying information is displayed by said displaying means.

Claim 27

The radio pager system according to claim 19, wherein said pager terminal apparatus further comprises table writing means for writing said desired message converting table into said rewritable storage means.

Claim 28

The radio pager system according to claim 27, wherein said table writing means of said pager terminal apparatus comprises: manually operable keyboard means for generating a desired signal sequence; means responsive to the signal sequence supplied by said keyboard means for generating a pair of assigned message specifying information and a message; and means for writing said generated pair into said converting table of said rewritable storage means.

Claim 29

The radio pager system according to claim 28, wherein said pager terminal apparatus further comprises means for supplying said generated pair of the message specifying information and the message to said displaying means to display the same.