US 6,633,224 B1Granted

Radio-calling device capable of setting flexibly output mode

AssigneeMatsushita Eletric Industrial Co., Ltd.

InventorsToshihiro Hishida, Hidetaka Ohto, Hitoshi Uno, Kazunori Watanabe, Masakazu Kawano, Hiromi Wada, Yasunori Tanaka, Yoshifumi Yonemoto

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Abstract

A radio pager system includes a radio pager that can receive messages and can specify a specific output mode, including a display, a sound output, a vibration, and a light emission appropriate to a particular type of message. The radio pager can further reduce difficulties in retransmitting and/or replying to messages and save time in the transmission period. The radio pager can receive and implement a radio message that includes control information which can be utilized for generating the specific output mode of the display.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A radio pager, comprising:

output means for performing an output operation using at least one of a display, a sound output, a vibration, and a light emission;
storage means for storing at least one template that each define a column arrangement, the template being stored as control information for controlling an output mode which includes at least one of the display, the sound output, the vibration, and the light emission;
reception means for receiving a radio message that includes a template identifier and contents of each column as parameters relating to the control information;
generating means for generating output control data, according to the received parameters and the control information;
and
control means for controlling the output means according to the output control data generated by the generation means,
wherein the generation means includes:
analysis means for analyzing the radio message received by the reception means and detecting the template identifier and the contents of each column;
read means for reading a template specified by the detected template identifier from the storage means;
creation means for creating the output control data according to the read template and the contents of each columns;
change specification means for specifying a changed part in a preceding message stored in preceding message storage means according to a user operation;
changed contents input means for inputting changed contents in the changed part specified by the change specification means according to the user operation;
change message creation means for creating a change message which includes relation information showing a relation with the preceding message, changed part information showing the changed part specified by the change specification means, and the changed contents inputted by the changed contents input means;
and
transmission means for transmitting the change message created by the change message creation means.

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A radio pager, comprising:

output unit for performing an output operation using at least one of a display, a sound output, a vibration, and a light emission;
storage unit for storing at least one template that each define a column arrangement, the template being stored as control information for controlling an output mode which includes at least one of the display, the sound output, the vibration, and the light emission;
reception unit for receiving a radio message that includes a template identifier and contents of each column as parameters relating to the control information;
generating unit for generating output control data according to the received parameters and the control information;
and
control unit for controlling the output unit according to the output control data generated by the generation unit,
wherein the generation unit includes:
analysis unit for analyzing the radio message received by the reception unit and detecting the template identifier and the contents of each column;
read unit for reading a template specified by the detected template identifier from the storage unit;
and
creation unit for creating the output control data according to the read template and the contents of each column;
wherein the template defines the column arrangement in which a column showing the template identifier, a secret word column, a person column, a time column, a place column, an event column, and a reply column are arbitrarily combined;
and
wherein the radio message is composed of the template identifier, the contents of each column, and separator codes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.