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US5166932A
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Wireless facsimile computer slate
Assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc
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Filing: 1990-04-27
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Granted: 1992-11-24
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Expires: 2010-04-27
Abstract
Abstract A radio paging network transmits non-paging data, such as facsimile images, to lap top computer receivers by formatting the data into a series of packets and interleaving these packets, on a space available basis, into the paging signal.
Inventors
- 👤 Don G. Hoff
- 👤 Lawrence H. Ragan
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-24 23:28
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04W; H04W4/00; H04W4/20; H04W68/00; H04W68/02; G; G08; G08B; G08B5/00; G08B5/22; G08B5/222; G08B5/223; G08B5/224; G08B5/225; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/00095; H04N1/00103; H04N1/00127; H04N1/00204; H04N1/00209; H04N1/00281; H04N1/0031; H04W28/00; H04W28/02; H04W28/06; H04W88/00; H04W88/18; H04W88/185; H04W88/187; H04N2201/00; H04N2201/0008; H04N2201/0034; H04N2201/0037; H04N2201/0043; H04N2201/0048; H04N2201/0055; H04N2201/0065; H04N2201/0068
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
104 words
A paging method comprising: maintaining first and second data gueues, the first queue containing paging message data and the second queue containing secondary, no-paging message data, such datum in the first and second gueues additionally including a recipient identifier code identifying the recipient for which the datum is intended; and formatting the data from the first queue into a time slot transmission format, said formatting further including interleaving data from the second queue into said time slot transmission format on a time available basis, wherein data from the second queue is interleaved into time slots that are devoid of data from the first queue.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
104 words
A paging method comprising: maintaining first and second data gueues, the first queue containing paging message data and the second queue containing secondary, no-paging message data, such datum in the first and second gueues additionally including a recipient identifier code identifying the recipient for which the datum is intended; and formatting the data from the first queue into a time slot transmission format, said formatting further including interleaving data from the second queue into said time slot transmission format on a time available basis, wherein data from the second queue is interleaved into time slots that are devoid of data from the first queue.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
29 words
The paging method of claim 1 in which the formatting step includes providing each time slot in the time slot transmission format with a datum identifying that time slot.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
16 words
The paging method of claim 1 which further includes providing facsimile data to the second queue.
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