Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Reexamination Certificate
1997-03-19
2001-06-19
Zimmerman, Brian (Department: 2635)
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
C340S870030, C340S311200, C455S039000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06249231
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a radio paging receiver, and more particularly to a radio paging receiver with a displaying function which stores messages accompanied by paging calls in directories provided with corresponding paging numbers, and displays stored messages in an arbitrary directory together and successively.
2. Description of the Prior Art
As an example of a conventional radio paging receiver with a message displaying function, a “Paging Receiver (Selective Call Receiver)” is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 257127/92.
The paging receiver mentioned above has a plurality of paging number and received message information with paging calls are sorted and displayed together in accordance with call discrimination information corresponding to the paging numbers. In particular, when various information services are received by a single receiver in such a manner for instance that stock price information is received with a certain paging number while exchange rate information is received with another paging number, message information can be sorted and displayed together in accordance with the call discrimination information, and consequently, understanding or recognition of information from each information service is remarkably facilitated for a user.
However, the paging receiver cannot display the message information belonging to a particular information service preferentially to other message information.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a radio paging receiver and a method of controlling the paging receiver, wherein, when reception messages stored in directories corresponding to paging numbers are to be displayed from directory to directory, messages stored in a directory corresponding to a particular paging number can immediately be displayed with a priority according to the working mode setting by switch operation by the user of the paging receiver.
It is an object that the user can confirm messages sent through a particular paging number immediately at any time, or he can confirm messages sent through one of the selected paging numbers when a new message is displayed through the same number.
According to one aspect of this invention, there is provided a radio paging receiver with a message displaying function which has a plurality of paging numbers and stores messages accompanied by paging calls into directories provided individually corresponding to each of the paging numbers and displays the messages from directory to directory as occasion demands,
the receiver comprising a priority or preferential display
directory setting means for determining as a priority or preferential display directory among the directories the directory which has the highest priority or preferential ranking for displaying, and
when the messages stored in the directories are to be displayed, the messages stored in the priority or preferential display directory determined by the priority or preferential display directory setting means are displayed together preferentially.
The priority or preferential display directory setting means may comprise a first priority or preferential display directory setting means for determining as the priority or preferential display directory the directory which corresponds to the paging number selected by an user of the radio paging receiver, and a second priority or preferential display directory setting means for determining as the priority or preferential display directory the directory from among the directories corresponding to a plurality of paging numbers selected by the user which corresponds to the paging number of the paging call that has occurred the latest, and the priority or preferential display directory may be determined by one of the first and second priority or preferential display directory setting means selected by the user.
According to another aspect of this invention, there is provided a method of controlling a radio paging receiver with a message displaying function which has a plurality of paging numbers and stores messages accompanied by paging calls into directories provided individually corresponding to each of the paging numbers and displays the messages from directory to directory as occasion demands,
the method comprising the steps of
selecting as a priority or preferential display directory from among the directories the directory which has the highest priority or preferential ranking for displaying, and
displaying the messages stored in the priority or preferential display directory together preferentially when the messages stored in the directories are to be displayed.
The method may comprise a step of determining as the priority or preferential display directory the directory which corresponds to the paging number selected by an user of the radio paging receiver, or the directory from among the directories corresponding to a plurality of paging numbers selected by the user which corresponds to the paging number of the paging call which has occurred the latest.
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Dalencourt Yves
NEC Corporation
Scully Scott Murphy & Presser
Zimmerman Brian
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