Message display control in selective call receiver
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorMasaaki Morishima
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Abstract
An individual selective call receiver with a display function, include a display unit displaying a data, a storage unit storing a priority display specifying data and a processor. The processor searches the message for the priority display specifying data in response to a priority display start instruction. When the priority display specifying data is searched, the processor controls the display unit to display the message such that a priority message portion of the message is displayed at a head portion of a screen of the display unit, the priority message portion including the priority display specifying data.
Claims19
An individual selective call receiver with a display function, the individual selective call receiver comprising:
- a display unit displaying a message;
- a storage unit storing a priority display specifying data, said priority display specifying data including a start key code and an end key code;
- a processor which:
- searches said message for said priority display specifying data in response to a priority display start instruction, said search for said priority display specifying data includes:
- i) searching said message for said start key code;
- ii) searching said message for said end key code when said start key code is searched in said message;
- and iii) determining said priority display specifying data is searched in said message when said end key code is searched in said message;
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- controls said display unit to display said message when said priority display specifying data is searched such that a priority message portion of said message is displayed at a head portion of a screen of said display unit, said priority message portion including said priority display specifying data.
A method for preliminarily displaying a priority message portion in an individual selective call receiver with a display function, the method comprising:
- searching a message for a priority display specifying data in response to a priority display start instruction, said priority display specifying data including a start key code and an end key code, said searching includes:
- i) searching said message for said start key code;
- ii) searching said message for said end key code when said start key code is searched in said message;
- and iii) determining said priority display specifying data is searched in said message when said end key code is searched in said message;
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- displaying said message when said priority display specifying data is searched such that a priority message portion of said message is displayed at a head portion of a screen of said display unit, said priority message portion including said priority display specifying data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.