Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Patent
1998-03-09
1999-12-28
Weaver, Scott
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
455 384, G06K 500
Patent
active
060087390
ABSTRACT:
A method of encouraging a user of a SCR (Selective Call receiver) (10) to read advertisements stored in the SCR (10). The user is provided with an initial level of access to a feature of the SCR that enhances the SCR's usefulness. When the user reads an advertisement, additional access to that feature is provided for a predetermined time period. Preferably, the feature is memory space, and each time the user reads an advertisement, the memory space available for storing messages is temporarily increased.
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Foster Roland R.
Macnak Philip P.
Moore John H.
Motorola Inc.
Weaver Scott
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