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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7956722 | System and method for providing user-selected information to a paging-capable device A system and method for providing user-selected information to a paging-capable device. An enhanced paging system responsive to information sources and a selection device transmits information to a paging-capable device. The enhanced paging system comprises a storin... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7372470 | System and method for transmitting and displaying messages in a mobile terminal A method and system for transmitting and displaying messages in a mobile terminal using short messaging service (SMS) is disclosed. An SMS message having a primary format information is encoded with a secondary format information, wherein the primary and secondary f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349532 | Picture and video message center system A message originator sends a picture or video message to a message center along with caller identifying information. The message is stored in a memory and transmitted to a wireless picture phone, PDA or portable computing device, or stored at the message center in a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330100 | Mobile device and related method for displaying text message with background images A wireless communications device includes a communication circuit for receiving a message signal having a text message via radio transmission; a storage device having a plurality of image data stored therein; a selecting module for selecting an image datum from the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310416 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A system for adding or updating contact data in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown. Contact data associated with actual or potential communicants may be entered into a database in the wireless comm... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305076 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system A wireless information communication system and method, such as a paging network, that provides caller identification information transmitted from the public switched telephone network to a pager, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a portable computing device, or per... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286658 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems A method for use in a wireless communication device, cellular telephone, pager or personal digital assistant (PDA) is shown in which Caller ID data originating from the public switched telephone network or other caller identifying data is received in a paging signal... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7266186 | Method and apparatus for improved paging receiver and system Contact data in a phonebook database for a personal communication device are remotely updateable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a wireless radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are inpu... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257210 | Picture phone with caller id Pictures are transmitted to a wireless picture phone with caller ID from a message originator and used by the message recipient to identify who is to sending the picture. In one embodiment the pictures are sent to a message center along with the caller ID of the mes... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7230531 | Imprintable ancillary signal indicator for indicating a communication An ancillary signal indicator notifies the reception of a signal that is associated with a user. The ancillary signal indicator includes an imprint actuator configured to instigate a signal imprint mode. A receiver is configured to receive an imprint signal when in ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7174162 | Portable radio communication apparatus The present invention aims at providing a portable radio communication apparatus in which forming of a message is easy. The portable radio communication apparatus is provided with a novel pre-message memory formed of a ROM or the like stored in which are fixed messa... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7053753 | Wireless community alerting system A pager-based alert system includes a monitor center that is in telephonic or data communication with a paging station allowing the command center to send multi-digit code words where selected digits comprise an address for selecting one or more of a plurality of ph... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7026914 | Selective calling receiver and method of switching alert operation thereof A selective calling receiver includes first and second tables and a control section. The first table stores in advance setting information for automatically stopping sound generation and switching to another alert operation. The second table stores in advance settin... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6909904 | System and protocol for extending functionality of wireless communication messaging An apparatus and method for extending the functionality of a message according to a predetermined message format, such as the Short Message Service (SMS) format, communicated at least in part via a wireless communication system, the method including the steps of: de... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6687498 | Communique system with noncontiguous communique coverage areas in cellular communication networks The communique system for cellular communication networks that operates with existing cellular communication networks to provide communique communication services to subscribers. The Communique can be unidirectional (broadcast) or bidirectional (interacti... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6459360 | Networks, communication systems, transmitting and receiving devices and methods for transmitting, receiving, and erasing stored information A paging transceiver and method for selectively paging provides a page to a paging transceiver but does not automatically provide an associated message. The paging transceiver receives the page and alerts the user that information is waiting and provides ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6459361 | Radio signal selective calling receiver and method of displaying message in the same There is provided a radio signal selective-calling receiver including (a) a display screen on which information are to be displayed, (b) a first memory for storing therein the information in the form of letters, and (c) a controller which, when the inform... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6400256 | Communication apparatus capable of displaying simultaneously the latest messages received from a plurality of callers A communication apparatus of the present invention displays, in its stand-by state, particular callers' name belonging to a preset group and the latest messages respectively corresponding to particular callers' names continuously on a display 6. On the re... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6298239 | Information transmission control apparatus for transmitting same information to a plurality of destinations, and information reception apparatus for receiving information from information transmission control apparatus An information transmission control apparatus for relaying information that allows a receiver's reply, from an information provider apparatus to a plurality of information reception apparatuses. The information transmission control apparatus sets differen... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6173048 | System and method for notifying a customer of a call from a particular number System and method providing a customer with the ability to obtain temporary notification service in the Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) for the customer's calling line by dialing a call to feature access code, without thc intervention of a service repr... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6049323 | Information message display method A method is used in a selective call receiver (SCR) (100) for displaying information messages received by the SCR on a multiline display (124) of the SCR. According to the method, a plurality of information messages is received (405), wherein each of the ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6044248 | Selective call receiver for displaying messages including graphical images A selective call receiver includes a code memory storing a plurality of graphic image units and graphic image unit codes, and a plurality of pieces of character data and character data codes. Code information is extracted from a message having a predeterm... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5892456 | Index managing method and apparatus of received messages for a radio paging receiver Each radio paging receiver includes an originating party identification table in which an individual originating party code provided for each information supplier and a name of the information supplier are registered, a received message memory into which ... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5821874 | Messaging terminal with voice notification A method for receiving and processing an incoming message in a wireless messaging terminal. The method includes providing a receiver which receives the message and a memory for storing the message. The method further includes matching the message with a p... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5802455 | Selective call receiver using typeface-based source identification A selective calling receiver previously stores a predetermined number of calling numbers and selectively receives a message according to one of the calling numbers. The received message and its corresponding calling number are sequentially stored onto a m... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5644568 | Method and apparatus for organizing and recovering information communicated in a radio communication system A system controller (102) generates and transmits a radio signal having long messages in data frames (370), and short and long messages in control frames (360). A set of selective call radio addresses is included at the beginning of a control frame (360),... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5629688 | Radio selective calling receiver storing messages based on sending-group names In a radio selective calling receiver capable of receiving and displaying a plurality of address codes and a plurality of messages, a group write control section stores received messages and address codes in a RAM while matching them to each other in acco... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5555426 | Method and apparatus for disseminating messages to unspecified users in a data processing system The method and apparatus of the present invention permit users to associate conditions of interest, such as keywords or originator identities. In response to the sending of a message, the data processing system determines which user conditions are met by ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5515051 | Wireless signaling system A wireless signaling system includes a plurality of transmitters and a single receiver. The transmitter sequentially transmits serial data blocks to the receiver. Each data block includes a transmitter identification code and predetermined time intervals ... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5481254 | Group message delivery in a time-division multiplexed paging system Group message delivery in a time multiplexed paging system is accomplished by providing in normal message packets a group ring indicator. A paging device collecting a message interrogates the group ring indicator to determine availability of a pending gro... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5319355 | Alarm for patient monitor and life support equipment system An alarm system for notifying necessary medical and hospital personnel that a patient or the patient's life support equipment require immediate response without providing the alarm signal to the monitored patient or surrounding patients, to prevent patien... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5075684 | Selective call message management Messages received by a selective call receiver are stored in source files with a user allocated number of message storage slots in response to a message source signal indicating the source of the message. Messages are retrieved utilizing the source files ... | 12/24/1991 |
| 5066949 | Sending different identifiers to selected receivers, to represent the same source A method for generating alphanumeric messages in a telephone-entry selective call system comprises programmable selective call source identification for selected selective call receivers and numerically coded canned alphanumeric messages.... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4845491 | Pager based information system A pager based information system is used to transmit both conventional private messages (using unique pager IDs) and two types of unconventional multi-recipient (M-R) messages (using database IDs and group IDs), all using the conventional POCSAG pager tra... | 07/04/1989 |
