Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-09
2001-04-24
Kuntz, Curtis (Department: 2743)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S090300, C455S550100, C455S566000, C455S575100, C379S354000, C379S355020
Reexamination Certificate
active
06223057
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a radio apparatus such as a wireless selective call receiver and a portable transmitting and receiving radio apparatus, and more particularly to a radio apparatus such as a wireless selective call receiver and a portable transmitting and receiving radio apparatus having a telephone number book.
2. Description of the Related Art
In a conventional information terminal equipment, a telephone line is used as the tool to exchange information with a counter party. Also, a telephone number book registration function is provided instead of a memorandum for a telephone number.
For example, according to Japanese Laid Open Patent Application (JP-A-Showa 64-53659), a telephone has a memory and a display unit used to display or confirm a registration number of a reduced dialing numbers as a multi-function telephone. Also, in the telephone, a counter party name information and a counter party telephone number data are dialed with previously determined internal codes subsequent to a first key pattern and stored in the memory after the telephone is off-hooked. When a second key pattern is dialed, name data and the telephone number data which have been stored in the memory are read out and displayed, and then when a first specific key is dialed, the displayed data is updated. When a second specific key is dialed, the displayed telephone number data is sent out from a dial sending section. When the name data and the telephone number data are dialed following a third key pattern, these data are deleted from the memory.
Also, according to Japanese Laid Open Patent Application (JP-A-Showa 61-107854), which relates to a display phone which has an automatic dialing function. The display phone is composed of a memory section which stores many names to which the automatic dialing function should be performed, in the order of dial sending frequency, an input/output and display unit which displays the names read out from the memory in order of dial sending frequency, and outputs a selection signal for the name selected from among the displayed names, a telephone functional section which starts the automatic dialing function with the displayed name in response to the selection signal, and a retrieval processing section which rearranges all the read names in the order of dial transmission frequency to store in the memory section, after counting up a dial transmission frequency file of the name with which communication is ended, in response to a communication end signal from the telephone function section.
Recent years, a function to smoothly reply to a received message or to register frequently used telephone numbers to a telephone number book is provided to a wireless selective call receiver with a display. Also, a transmitting side telephone number notifying system is recently started, so that a transmitting side telephone number is notified to a receiving side and displayed on the receiving side. In this manner, since it becomes possible to notify the transmitting side telephone number, the relieved sense is given to the receiving side.
However, in retrieving means for retrieving registrants from a telephone number book of a conventional wireless selective call receiver with a display, the registrants are outputted in the order of alphabet or in the order of higher use frequency. For this reason, when a telephone number with a low use frequency should be selected, or when the number of registrants increases, it is necessary to push a selection button many times or to continue to push the selection button. As a result, a heavy load is imposed to the selection button or a switch unit of the receiver which is composed of the minimum number of buttons and small part switches. Also, the retrieval takes a long time.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is accomplished in view of the above problems. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a radio apparatus and a method of managing a telephone number book, in which retrieval from the telephone number book is facilitated.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a radio apparatus and a method of managing a telephone number book, in which load imposed on a switch unit can be reduced so that the quality of the radio apparatus such as a portable receiver and a portable transmitting and receiving radio apparatus can be maintained.
In order to achieve an aspect of the present invention, a radio apparatus includes a storage unit having a plurality of storage areas respectively corresponding to a plurality of directories to which names are respectively allocated, a display unit, and an operation unit having a first selection key, a second selection key and a determination key. A control unit having a memory which stores a telephone number. The control unit controls the display unit to display the plurality of directory names, and selects one of the plurality of displayed directory names based on operations of the first selection key, and the second selection key and the determination key of the operation unit. Then, the control unit controls the display unit to display a sequence of letters in a registration mode, and produces a name for the telephone number stored in the memory. The name is composed of at least one letter which is selected from the displayed sequence of letters based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit. Finally, the control unit stores the name and the telephone number in one of the plurality of directories of the storage unit which corresponds to the selected directory name.
The control unit may control the display unit to display the sequence of letters in the registration mode, produces a new directory name composed of at least one letter which is selected from the displayed sequence of letters based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit, and allocates a storage area of the storage unit to a directory having the new directory name in response to an operation of the determination key.
When the radio apparatus includes a radio unit for receiving a radio call, the control unit may store the telephone number of the radio call received by the radio unit. Alternately, the control unit may control the display unit to display the sequence of letters in the registration mode, produce a new telephone number composed of at least one letter which is selected from the displayed sequence of letters based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit, and store the produced telephone number in the memory as the telephone number.
When the operation unit further includes a menu key, the control units may control the display unit to display a data indicative of registration, a data indicative of read and a data indicative of management. In this case, the registration mode is set when the registration data is selected based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit, a read mode is set when the read data is selected based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit, and a management mode is set when the management data is selected based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit.
In the read mode, the control unit may control the display unit to display sets of the name and the telephone number, when one of the plurality of directory names which has been displayed on the display unit is selected based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit, and control a radio unit to automatically call one of the sets, when the one of the sets is selected based on operations of the first selection key, second selection key and determination key of the operation unit.
Also, in the management mode, the c
Kuntz Curtis
NEC Corporation
Scully Scott Murphy & Presser
Taylor Barry W.
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