Method of rewriting message receive control information stored in radio pager

Claim 1

A method of enabling/disabling message receipt in a radio pager, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a radio transmission which is comprised of a pager address code and a message signal which follows said pager address code; (b) comparing the pager address code with a predetermined pager ID code; (c) acquiring the message signal in the event that the pager address code coincides with the pager ID code; (d) checking if control information is present within said message signal; (e) extracting said control information from said message signal in the event of a positive outcome in step (d); and (f) rewriting a piece of message receive control data which determines if the message signal is displayed or disregarded, in the event that the control code is found in the message signal.

Claim 2

A method of rewriting message receive control information which has been stored in a radio pager, each piece of said message receive control information being assigned to one of plural pager ID codes previously allocated to said radio pager and indicating if a message directed to the corresponding pager ID code is acceptable, said method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, at said radio pager, a pager address code which Is followed by a message signal; (b) comparing the pager address code with each of said pager ID codes; (c) acquiring the message signal in the event that the pager address code coincides with one of said pager ID codes; (d) checking if control codes are present within said message signal, said control codes including message receive control data by which said one of pieces of message receive control information is rewritten; and (e) rewriting one of pieces of the message information by the message receive control data transmitted in the event that the control codes are found to be present within said message signal in step (d).