Pager and method for operating same

Abstract

A pager having a telephone number memory, a telephone number retrieval section, a radio transmitter section, and a reply operation control section, which makes it possible to automatically send a reply message back to the sender of a message to the pager, without requiring a complex operation to be performed by the user of the pager. The telephone number memory stores information including telephone numbers of other pagers. The telephone number retrieval section executes retrieval of a telephone number out of the telephone numbers stored in the telephone number memory, in response to a sequence of numbers which is included in the received message. The reply operation control section controls transmission of a reply message to the telephone number which has been determined by the telephone number retrieval section, using the radio transmitter section. With the pager, it is possible to automatically let the sender know that the message has been received by the pager even in situations where dialing and talking are impossible, and telephone charges for the reply messages can be saved since the reply operation is executed accurately and quickly.

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