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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4975694 | Paging receiver with variable color indicators A paging receiver has an indicator capable of illluminating in one of a plurality of colors. The color of illumination is selected in response to the address received by the pager. The indicator identifies the address by the color illuminated. The indicat... | 12/04/1990 |
| 4959644 | Paging receiver with a display function that inhibits display of a received command signal A paging receiver with a display function allows a conventional message to be displayed and a receiver control signal to be sent together in a single message format. A first and a second predetermined character are detected in a received message. A messag... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4952927 | Paging receiver with dynamically allocated display rate A paging receiver has a predetermined number of displayable characters, a microcomputer for receiving and processing data messages, a plurality of control switches for operating the computing means, and a memory for storing a plurality of received data me... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4922221 | Pager receiver for giving at least one of extraordinary tones and extraodinary displays A pager receiver for a radio calling signal carrying a call number and/or a message includes a processing unit for producing a drive and an information signal to produce ordinary tone or tones related to the call number and to provide ordinary visual disp... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4887291 | System for annunciating emergencies Disclosed is a system that can monitor occupied or unoccupied buildings, and annuciate to a distant point, e.g. a digital pocket paper, emergency events such as burglaries, fires, high or low temperature, high or low flow rate in such devices as boilers a... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4887077 | Subscriber inventory network A subscriber inventory network provides efficient dissemination and rapid exchange of information between members. Members of the subscriber network are arranged in separate groups, with the member subscribers in each separate group being pre-qualified wi... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4882744 | Automatic paging system An automatic paging system which can handle a calling for both subscribers of conventional (old) beepers without a message display function and new type beepers wherein a message, such as his telephone number, from a calling party can be displayed, when t... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4878051 | Paging system with commands for changing functionality of a paging receiver A paging network is disclosed which utilizes a plurality of distributed switches to transmit pages on a non-real time basis to achieve efficient and low cost transmission. Each of the switches processes packets of pages received from the network. Each of ... | 10/31/1989 |
| 4876537 | Pager receiver including a light emitting and a light sensing element adjacent to a translucent portion of a receiver housing For simplifying a pager housing (14) containing a light sensing and a light emitting element (36 and 38), the housing has a common translucent portion (30). The light sensing and the light emitting elements are disposed adjacent to the translucent portion... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4868563 | Microcomputer controlled display backlight An apparatus for controlling the illumination of a display used to prevent messages in a pager is described. A microcomputer is used for controlling the operation of the display in response to a read switch being actuated. A light switch, coupled to an il... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4857911 | Multifunctional pager receiver capable of reducing the member of manual switches In a multifunctional pager receiver comprising a processing circuit (30) operable in a plurality of modes of operations, each mode is selected by manual switches (51, 62-64) smaller in number than the modes. A combination of successive manual operations o... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4856088 | Radio with removable display An electronic device having a display is disclosed which comprises contacts for electrically coupling the display to the circuitry of the electronic device, and a mounting arrangement for removable attachment of the display to the electronic device, such ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4855731 | Pager receiver capable of avoiding an unpleasing interruption of a displayed message In a pager receiver having a display unit and carrying out operations in relation to each of previous and current messages stored in an RAM, only reception of the current message is indicated by an optical indicator included in the display unit when each ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4856047 | Automated remote telemetry paging system A remote telemetry unit (RTU) for use in an automated telemetry paging system for providing remote pager notification of changes in selected operating parameters measured at a specific site location. The selected parameters and the unacceptable changes th... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4853688 | Paging receiver displaying place of origin of pages A paging receiver is disclosed which is compatible with transmissions from analog or digital paging transmitters. The paging receiver has a command structure which permits it to be dynamically programmable to change its functionality including programming... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4851829 | Paging receiver with alert indicating status of memory The present invention relates to a paging receiver and a method for generating an alert indicating the status of memory. The paging receiver includes a plurality of memory storage areas, each memory storage storing a received message and including a corre... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4835777 | Radio paging receiver including duplicate page detection and error correction capability A digital paging receiver is provided which includes apparatus for determining if an incoming page message is a duplicate of a prior page message already stored in the memory of the receiver. If the current page message is determined to be a duplicate of ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4821308 | Telephone answering system with paging function A telephone answering system with paging function is adapted to transmit a prerecorded outgoing message to a calling party through a closed loop of telephone lines established upon reception or a telephone calling signal, and record an incoming message fr... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4821021 | Selective calling radio display pager having a message recalling algorithm which simplifies operations Manually operated first, second and third command entry switches are provided for respectively generating first, second and third command signals. In response to the first command signal a controller successively recalls portions of received messages from... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4818987 | Selective paging receiver with message display A selective paging receiver with message display has a receiver section, a number setting circuit, a paging number detector, and a display panel. The receiver section receives paging signals sent to the paging receiver, and recovers a paging number data s... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4812813 | Display radio pager having graphic alarm for selective indication of memory availability factors A selective calling display radio pager has a memory which is configured to store a plurality of received messages for later retrieval so that the amount of messages which can be stored is limited by one of first and second memory availability factors dep... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4796291 | Mobile radio communications system A mobile radio communications system for wide area mobile radio communications allows any two remote mobile stations to hold communications by way of a public switching network. A fixed station governing an area in which a calling mobile station is locate... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4786902 | Control interface for combined watch and pager functions A wrist worn device includes a digital watch circuit and a receiver circuit which responds to coded message signals including selective call signalling and message information. An input steering circuit interfaces between the watch circuit and the receive... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4786889 | Battery casing for a paging receiver A paging receiver having a function of alerting a person to reception by causing a motor to vibrate a housing of the receiver is disclosed. A generally box-like motor receiving portion is positioned on the outer side periphery of a battery casing and prov... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4779091 | Radio pager receiver capable of informing whether or not memory backup is correct A radio pager receiver has a memory with a message area, and an additional area and a message processor for processing a message signal into messages and to store the messages in the message area. A specific datum is written (S6) in the additional area by... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4769641 | Pager receiver capable of avoiding an unpleasing interruption of a displayed message In a pager receiver having a display unit and carrying out operations in relation to each of previous and current messages stored in a RAM, only reception of the current message is indicated by an optical indicator included in the display unit when each o... | 09/06/1988 |
| 4766434 | Selective paging receiver with message display A pager has a receiver for receiving selective paging numbers and message data and a message display panel for displaying paging messages to the user. The pager has a first memory for storing message data. Control data, arriving together with the message ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4758834 | Pager receiver for giving at least one of extraordinary tones and extraordinary displays A pager receiver for a radio calling signal carrying a call number and/or a message comprises a processing unit for producing a drive and an information signal to produce ordinary tone or tones related to the call number and to provide ordinary visual dis... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4759022 | Method and receiver for receiving messages sent by radio In a method of receiving messages transmitted by radio in the form of coded characters, there is included storing a message in blocks together with error indications pertaining to the same, storing the same repeated messages in a register, and then combin... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4754275 | Display with supplemental lighting system A display device has a single switch that transfers a stored message to a liquid crystal display and simultaneously activates a supplemental display lighting system. The supplemental lighting system is inhibited, however, when circuitry senses that ambien... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4742352 | Radio communication system equipped with electronic appliance A radio communication system is used with an electronic appliance such as a wristwatch. The radio communication system includes a single transmitter unit including a first reference clock pulse generator which transmits paging data together with message d... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4742516 | Method for transmitting voice information A system including a broadcasting station which transmits many independent information packets to many receiving sets in succession. An information packet consists of a text, a classification code and a distinction code. Text is a sequence of words and sy... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4734694 | Pager A pager which is usable in a plurality of service areas is disclosed. The pager includes a radio section for selectively receiving and modulating two or more radio frequencies, and frequency switching means for switching the receive frequency of the radio... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4713659 | Pager with display A pager with a passive display, for example, a liquid crystal display, also has a sensor for sensing ambient light levels. The display is automatically illuminated when the ambient light level falls below a given threshold and the sensor is then either al... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4706272 | Paging communication system A paging communication system is configured so that a plurality of receivers are called by group in response to a paging signal transmitted from a base station. The base station is provided with first circuitry comprising a plurality of timers for countin... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4696054 | Pocketable wireless transmitter and receiver A wireless communicating device comprises a receiving circuit for wirelessly receiving message serial number information and a display for displaying the message serial number information. Preferably and additionally, the device may comprise a transmissio... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4682148 | Display pager having memory overflow indication and concurrent message display functions A radio paging receiver for receiving a carrier wave modulated paging signal which includes a preamble, an address code and a message, is composed of at least a receiver section, a waveform shaping circuit, a memory section, a control section, a speaker w... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4660032 | Radio paging receiver operable on a word-scrolling basis A radio paging receiver comprises a linear array of display elements, a memory having a plurality of storage locations for storing a received message code therein, and a microprocessor-based decoder. The microprocessor-based decoder is responsive to a rec... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4654631 | Pocket clip with integral display A pocket clip suitable for attaching a personal paging receiver to an article of clothing has an integral character display. The pocket clip has a rigid lower housing part, and a plastic upper housing part containing the display and a circuit board with d... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4646081 | Radio paging receiver operable on a word scrolling basis A radio paging receiver comprises a linear array of display elements, a memory having a plurality of storage locations for storing a received message code therein, and a microprocessor-based decoder. The microprocessor-based decoder is responsive to a rec... | 02/24/1987 |
