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US 5,166,932 AGranted
Wireless facsimile computer slate
AssigneesSeiko Corp., Seiko Epson Corporation
InventorsDon G. Hoff, Lawrence H. Ragan
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Abstract
A radio paging network transmits non-paging data, such as facsimile images, to lap top computer receivers by formatting the data into a series of packets and interleaving these packets, on a space available basis, into the paging signal.
Claims3
A paging method comprising:
- maintaining first and second data gueues, the first queue containing paging message data and the second queue containing secondary, no-paging message data, such datum in the first and second gueues additionally including a recipient identifier code identifying the recipient for which the datum is intended;
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- formatting the data from the first queue into a time slot transmission format, said formatting further including interleaving data from the second queue into said time slot transmission format on a time available basis, wherein data from the second queue is interleaved into time slots that are devoid of data from the first queue.
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