US5815081A
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Radio paging receiver capable of providing a large number of announcing modes
Assignee: NEC Corp
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Filing: 1996-06-21
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Granted: 1998-09-29
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Expires: 2016-06-21
Abstract
Abstract For carrying out an announcement in response to a call signal which has, as a selected code, one of a plurality of call condition indicating code, a radio paging receiver has a plurality of call condition indicating tables each holding a plurality of announcing modes in correspondence to the call condition indicating codes. Selection is carried out to select, as a selected table, one of the call condition indicating tables. The announcement is carried out in a particular announcing mode which is selected from the announcing modes of the selected table in response to the selected code. It is preferable that the selection is automatically carried out at a time when a current time instant is coincident with a preselected time instant.
Inventors
- 👤 Teruyuki Motohashi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 08:24
CPC Classifications
G; G08; G08B; G08B7/00; G08B7/06; H; H04; H04W; H04W88/00; H04W88/02; H04W88/022; G08B3/00; G08B3/10; G08B3/1008; G08B3/1016; G08B3/1025
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
140 words
A radio paging receiver comprising: announcing means for carrying out an announcement in response to said radio paging receiver receiving a call signal having one of a plurality of call condition indicating codes; a plurality of call condition indicating tables, each having a plurality of announcing modes corresponding to said plurality of call condition indicating codes such that one of said plurality of call condition indicating codes may correspond to more than one announcing mode; table selecting means connected to said plurality of call condition indicating tables for selecting one of said plurality of call condition indicating tables; and announcement actuating means connected to said announcing means and said table selecting means for actuating said announcing means according to one of said plurality of announcing modes corresponding to said received condition indicating code of said selected call condition indicating table.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
140 words
A radio paging receiver comprising: announcing means for carrying out an announcement in response to said radio paging receiver receiving a call signal having one of a plurality of call condition indicating codes; a plurality of call condition indicating tables, each having a plurality of announcing modes corresponding to said plurality of call condition indicating codes such that one of said plurality of call condition indicating codes may correspond to more than one announcing mode; table selecting means connected to said plurality of call condition indicating tables for selecting one of said plurality of call condition indicating tables; and announcement actuating means connected to said announcing means and said table selecting means for actuating said announcing means according to one of said plurality of announcing modes corresponding to said received condition indicating code of said selected call condition indicating table.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
119 words
A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said table selecting means comprises: time indicating means for indicating a current time instant; time holding means for holding a preselected time instant; time detecting means connected to said time indicating means and said time holding means for detecting whether said current time instant is coincident with said preselected time instant, said time detecting means producing a time detection signal when said current time instant is coincident with said preselected time instant; and designating means connected to said time detecting means and said plurality of call condition indicating tables for designating a predetermined one of said plurality of call condition indicating tables in response to said time detection signal.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
142 words
A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said table selecting means comprises: time indicating means for indicating a current time instant; first time holding means for holding a first preselected time instant; second time holding means for holding a second preselected time instant; time detecting means connected to said time indicating means and said first and said second time holding means for detecting whether said current time instant is between said first and said second preselected time instants, said time detecting means producing a time detection signal when said current time instant is between said first and said second preselected time instants; and designating means connected to said time detecting means and said plurality of call condition indicating tables for designating a predetermined one of said plurality of call condition indicating tables in response to said time detection signal.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
85 words
A radio paging receiver as claimed in claim 1, wherein said table selecting means comprises: a switch being manually operated; operation detecting means connected to said switch for detecting whether said switch is operated, said operation detecting means producing an operation detection signal when said switch is operated; and designating means connected to said operation detecting means and said plurality of call condition indicating tables for designating a predetermined one of said plurality of call condition indicating tables in response to said operation detection signal.
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