US 5,495,517 AGranted

Radio communication apparatus capable of carrying out radio paging announcement with generation of a tone after portable telephone communication has finished

AssigneeNEC Corporation

InventorsMotoki Ide, Kazunobu Yamada

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Abstract

In a radio communication apparatus having both portable telephone portion and radio paging portion, the portable telephone portion comprises a portable telephone transmission/reception unit 21, a control unit 23, a speech transceiver 25, a display unit 27, and an operation unit 29, while the radio paging portion comprises a radio paging receiver unit 31, the control unit 23, the display unit 27, the operation unit 29, a tone generation announcement unit 33, a silent announcement unit 35, an announcement mode memory 39, and a reception information memory 37. It is assumed that the operation unit 29 selects "a delayed announcement mode after completion of communication" and stores this mode in the announcement mode memory 39. In this event, when the radio paging operation is received during communication of the portable telephone portion, the control unit 23 makes the silent announcement unit 35 carry out call announcement in a silent mode and makes the reception information memory 37 memorize a message. After completion of the communication, the control unit 23 makes the tone generation announcement unit 33 announce reception of the radio paging operation during communication and makes the display unit 27 collectively display the reception information.

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Dependent claims

A radio communication apparatus for use in a portable telephone system and a radio paging system, said portable telephone system comprising a portable telephone base station, said radio paging system comprising a radio paging base station, said apparatus comprising:

portable telephone means for carrying out mutual communication with said portable telephone base station;
radio paging means responsive to a radio paging signal for carrying out call announcement in a tone generation mode, call announcement in a silent mode, and display announcement of a message;
display means for displaying reception information of said radio paging signal;
communication state monitoring means for monitoring whether or not said portable telephone means is in a communication state;
tone generation announcement permitting means for making said call announcement to be carried out in said tone generation mode when said portable telephone means is in a noncommunication state;
tone generation announcement inhibiting means for making said call announcement to be carried out in said silent mode, when said portable telephone means is in a communication state;
reception information memorizing means for memorizing said reception information when said radio paging signal is received during said communication state;
and
reception information batch announcement means for collectively announcing said memorized reception information after completion of said communication state of said portable telephone means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.