Communications: electrical – Selective – Having indication or alarm
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-28
2003-10-14
Horabik, Michael (Department: 2735)
Communications: electrical
Selective
Having indication or alarm
C340S007220, C340S007200, C340S007510
Reexamination Certificate
active
06633224
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a radio pager that receives message information and outputs the information by output operations such as displays, sounds, and vibrations, and relates to a method of controlling the output operations.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
FIG. 1
shows the general construction of a system that uses a conventional radio pager. As shown in the figure, a message inputted using a telephone
2601
is transmitted to a radio pager
2604
via a public network
2602
, a radio station
2603
, and an antenna
2605
by radio waves.
The radio pager
2604
includes a reception unit
2606
for receiving the message transmitted by radio via the antenna
2605
, a conversion unit
2607
for converting the received message as necessary, a display unit
2608
for displaying the received message, a message storage unit
2609
for storing the received message, a setting unit
2610
, and a fixed message storage unit
2611
.
A message is usually inputted using 12 keys that are made up of “*”, “#”, and 10 numeric keys of “1” to “0”. A letter of Japanese katakana or alphabet can be inputted using a two-digit number.
For example, “23239912” is inputted in order to generate a message “
” (SUZUKI). Here, “
” (SU) is expressed by “23”, a voiced consonant mark “
” is expressed by “99”, and “
” (KI) is expressed by “12”. On receiving the radio message “23239912”, the radio pager outputs the message “
” on a display screen along with bell or melody sounds which are set in advance.
If a fixed message “TEL
” (PLEASE CALL) is registered in a code “*0510” in advance, on receiving a radio message “23239912*0510”, the radio pager outputs the message “
TEL
” (SUZUKI, PLEASE CALL) along with the bell or melody sounds set in advance.
With a radio selection call receiver disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 3-24827, a transmitter can specify a sound to be outputted at the time of message reception by including information specifying a call notification sound pattern and a sound level in a radio message.
Also, a radio pager
32
in
FIG. 2
, disclosed in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application No. 3-18137, includes a clock unit
32
d
, a timer time setting unit
32
e
, and a comparison unit
32
f
which compares a set timer time of the timer time setting unit
32
e
and a clock time of the clock unit
32
d
and outputs a matching signal when they match. A control unit
32
c
drives and controls a call display unit
32
b
according to the matching signal. The timer time (time of day) is set according to a timer time setting signal which is included in a calling signal.
However, in these conventional radio pagers, the display unit can only be driven and controlled in accordance with a fixed factor such as a scheduled time. Also, the contents of the control are limited to the bell sound output. Furthermore, it is difficult to cancel or change the contents which have already been set.
The transmitter can only specify the call notification sound pattern and the sound level to be outputted at the time of the message reception but cannot specify a message display pattern and a sound, such as the call notification sound, to be outputted in association with the message display. Thus, there is a problem of restricted flexibility in making a transmission message.
To transmit messages which have the same meaning but subtly different styles for various receivers, it is necessary to create and transmit each message with a different style to a corresponding receiver. This incurs a great cost and time to the transmitter.
In the conventional radio pagers, a message is processed as an indivisible unit, so that a transmission message and a received message have the same contents. Accordingly, to partially change the contents of a message that has already been transmitted, it is necessary to create a whole message again by inputting both the changed part and the unchanged part of the original message. The partial change cannot be made just by transmitting the changed part. Thus, the conventional radio pagers have a drawback that it is troublesome to input messages and to retransmit and reply to the messages.
Also, with the conventional radio pagers, not only the changed part but the unchanged part of the original message needs to be transmitted. This causes the wastes in retransmitting the same part of the message.
The use of a self-made message setting function cannot sufficiently reduce the difficulties in retransmitting/replying messages and the wastes in retransmitting the same part of the messages.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
The present invention aims to provide a radio pager that can specify output control including a display, a sound output, a vibration, a light emission, and the like in greater variety and flexibility, and a control method of the radio pager.
The present invention also aims to provide a radio pager whose output control can be determined and changed by the transmitter and a control method of the radio pager.
The present invention also aims to provide a radio pager that can reduce the transmitter's difficulties in making messages which have the same meaning but different styles improve the flexibility in making messages, and a control method of the radio pager.
The present invention further aims to provide a radio pager that can reduce the difficulties in retransmitting/replying messages and the wastes in transmission, and a control method of the radio pager.
The above objects can be fulfilled by a radio pager, comprising: output means for performing an output operation using at least one of a display, a sound output, a vibration, and a light emission; storage means for storing control information for controlling an output mode that includes at least one of the display, the sound output, the vibration, and the light emission; reception means for receiving a radio message that includes at least one parameter relating to the control information; generation means for generating output control data according to the received parameter and the control information; and control means for controlling the output means according to the output control data generated by the generation means.
Here, the storage means may store any of: at least one program for processing data in the radio message and determining the output mode; at least one set of event information that are each a combination of an event condition relating to the radio message and operation data which is dependent on an occurrence of an event; and at least one template showing a form for a display message where contents of at least one column in the radio message are included. With the above construction, the generated output control data differs according to the parameter in the radio message. Accordingly, the transmitter can flexibly specify the output control including the display, the bell sound output, and the like, by setting the parameter corresponding to the desired output mode.
Here, the reception means may receive the radio message that includes a program identifier as the parameter, and the generation means may process the data in the radio message and determines the output mode according to a program specified by the program identifier in order to generate the output control data which instructs to execute the output mode.
Here, the storage means may store the combination of the event condition for the occurrence of the event and the operation data to be used when the event occurs, wherein the reception means receives the radio message that includes an element relating to the event condition as the parameter, and wherein the generation means generates the output control data according to the operation data stored in the storage means when the event caused by the parameter occurs.
Here, the storage means may store, as the event condition, any of: a reception of a radio message which includes specified data; a coming of a time, and a lapse of a time period since a reception of a radio message.
Here, the storage means may store the template which includes a plurality of columns, whe
Hishida Toshihiro
Kawano Masakazu
Ohto Hidetaka
Tanaka Yasunori
Uno Hitoshi
Horabik Michael
Matsushita Eletric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Shimizu M
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