Digitized stored voice paging receiver
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsPaul T. Bennett, David F. Willard, Omid Tahernia, James C. Page, Allan I. Spiro, Frank E. Lambrecht
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Abstract
A paging receiver device and method are disclosed in which analog information transmitted from an external source such as a paging transmitter are received and decoded. The analog information includes at least one voice message. The voice message is recovered, digitized, and stored in one of a plurality of message slots in a memory of the paging receiver. In response to a paging user's request, the digitized stored message is recalled from memory, reconverted from digital information to analog information, and used to produce audible voice information being a replica of the original analog voice message.
Claims16
A digital voice storage communication system including:
- at least one transmitting station selectively addressing and transmitting a communication packet including an address code followed by a voice message;
- a least two receiving stations having a corresponding predetermined stored address, each comprising:
- a) a receiver circuit for receiving an incoming signal carrying said communication packet;
- b) decoder circuitry responsive to said receiver circuit for emitting a record enable signal responsive to said communication packet carried by said incoming signal, including:
- a comparator for comparing said predetermined stored address with said communication packet address code and automatically generating said record enable signal in response to said comparison, without reference to a separate record enable signal from said transmitter;
- c) digital memory for storing said voice message of said communication packet in response to said record enable signal;
- d) signal conversion circuitry for converting digital data in said digital memory into analog data for playback.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.