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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7312701 | Method and system for environment detection A method for environment detection to be implemented by a system, which includes a detection module and a control module, includes the steps of establishing a wireless communications link between the detection module and the control module, enabling the detection mo... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7250846 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic user alert Techniques for providing a dynamic alert indication to a user of a signal receiving device. One technique includes the steps of processing a signal transmitted from a signal transmitting device to determine at least one mode to be associated with an alert indication... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7209955 | Notification system and method for a mobile data communication device A notification system and method for a mobile data communication device is provided. A clientbased software program operates at the mobile communication device to manage and execute, user-selectable notification schemes (“notification module”) in response to dat... | 04/24/2007 |
| 6940955 | Method and remote answering machine controller for programmable control based upon message importance A method, remote answering machine controller and computer program product are provided for programmable control based upon message importance. Responsive to an incoming call being received, checking a current message priority is performed. Responsive to the identif... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6816061 | Communication system for communicating common data to a plurality of reception devices A communication system (10) uses commercial, mass market paging transmission facilities (16) to deliver messages (18′) to a population of reception devices (22). Each reception device (22) includes a display screen (48) at... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6807433 | Mobile communication terminal with unanswered incoming-call notifying function A mobile communication terminal is provided with a light-emitting element for notifying an unanswered incoming call. When the cancellation of an incoming call is canceled in a state where an incoming call response operation has not been carried out, the mobile commu... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6661340 | System and method for connecting security systems to a wireless device The present invention provides a personal security network where an individual's system or systems of security devices may be connected to a central security network. The central security network of the present invention may monitor a system's status and ... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6653930 | Urgency-based variable call notification A method and device are configured to generate alerts that are varied based upon whether an incoming communication is perceived to be mode (i.e., a non-urgency mode), with different tactile-based patterns being dependent upon the selection of the mode. Th... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6574489 | Incoming call notification method and device for a multimode radio device A multimode radio has: an antenna that transmits and receives calls via radio signals of a plurality of communication modes; receivers that convert the received radio signals to signals for particular communication modes; an incoming call notifying unit h... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6559753 | Selective radio call receiver capable of receiving common data in emergency mode In a method of notifying messages in a radio selective call receiver, a call which includes an identifier and a message is received. In a normal mode, arrival of the call is notified and the message of the call is displayed as a normal mode message, when ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6433670 | Pager and a method of displaying the number of messages received by the same The accounting management of a user of a pager receiving a service in which the user is charged for the number of calls is desired to be facilitated by displaying an illustrated image representing the number of received messages within a fixed period of t... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6411827 | Radio selective calling receiver and portable telephone apparatus for efficiently managing received call A radio selective calling receiver comprising a receiving for receiving the radio calling signal containing sending user information that allows the receiving user to identify the sending user and assign a priority level to the sending user, a plurality o... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6304765 | Foldable communication device and method A foldable communication device (10) with a housing having two portions (11,12) pivotably mounted to each other to allow relative movement therebetween. This relative movement is about an axis (13) and enabled by mounting portion (11) to two mounts (14,15... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6157318 | Radio paging receiver wherein a possessor thereof can freely set a selected call announcing mode in correspondence to every sender of a call In a radio paging receiver for announcing, by the use of an announcing section (5) having a plurality of announcing modes, reception of a call generated by a particular sender, a memory section (8+9) memorizes, as memorized sender data, a plurality of sen... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6124801 | Radio selective calling receiver and calling method The message transmitter transmits a re-calling identification signal with a message, and a receiver identifies this signal. Thereby the message transmitter can indicate selectively the re-calling of the receiver. If the message is not confirmed, the recei... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6088575 | Radio receiver capable of preventing failure to notice an important message A radio paging receiver comprises a receiver section (11) for receiving a transmitted signal having a call signal (ID) and a message signal succeeding the call signal. A decoder section (12) distinguishes whether or not the call signal is coincident with ... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5973612 | Flexible object notification Alternative notification methods for a portable wireless receiver that is able to receive paging objects (i.e., data objects) in addition to conventional alphanumeric page messages. When a paging object is received, the user may be notified of the receipt... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5942986 | System and method for automatic critical event notification A critical event notification system continuously monitors patient statistics and lab data to detect critical events, and automatically pages a responsible physician or physicians, each having an alphanumeric pager. In particular, a computer is used to co... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5943607 | Automatically notifying messaging device users of selected incoming calls to a telephone set A telephone set automatically transmits a paging message to notify a user that a call from a selected caller has been received. In one embodiment, the telephone set transmits the paging message to a service bureau which formats and relays the paging messa... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5864299 | Method and apparatus for reducing overhead in a messaging system A messaging system, having a transmitter (202) for transmitting information service messages to selective call units (SCU's) (122), receives displayable information from a service provider, and creates a message having an address field (504) and data fiel... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5740532 | Method of transmitting emergency messages in a RF communication system A method for an RF base station (105) to transmit an emergency message to a selective call receiver (104). The base station (105) receives incoming messages that are to be transmitted to selective call receivers, some of which incoming messages are emerge... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5697060 | Portable voice message terminal capable of transmitting pre-set text-based information A portable wireless voice message transmitter over packet switched network for transmitting a voice message is provided. The transmitter is capable of transmitting a voice message and text-based information when a user makes an emergency call to a special... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5663717 | Method and apparatus for prioritizing message transmissions and alerts in a radio communication system A communications system (100) for transmission of a plurality of messages over a communications channel includes a terminal (105) for selectively transmitting each of the plurality of message, and data communication receivers (110) for receiving first and... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5604491 | Pager with user selectable priority A selective call receiving device (14) and method allows a user of the device to mark or identify a message as a priority message. A message identified as a priority is stored in a priority message list (52) for comparison to a message that is subsequentl... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5493285 | Paging receiver suitable for an emergency call A paging receiver of the present invention includes a decoder for processing a paging number and a message signal of a transmitted radio signal and receives the radio signal selectively by comparing the paging number with a predetermined paging number of ... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5471204 | Radio communication apparatus capable of notifying reception of a call signal in a perceptual mode determined by counting a number of times of the reception In a radio communication apparatus for use in carrying out a receiving operation of selectively receiving a call signal specific to the apparatus, a counter is counted up one by one to produce a count each time when the call signal is received. The count ... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5434563 | Paging receiver in which an announcing unit is automatically controlled at a particular time instant In a paging receiver having a plurality of receiver modes, an announcing arrangement is controlled at a particular time instant determined at a specific time instant which is previous to the particular time instant. The paging receiver is provided with a ... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5396264 | Automatic menu item sequencing method A portable information display device such as a pager (20) has a plurality of operating modes and a corresponding plurality of menu items (40, 140). A symbol (40, 142) corresponding each menu item is displayed on a display (22) in a sequence determined by... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5396229 | Selective calling receiver A selective calling receiver comprises a receiving section for receiving data including call numbers of individual receivers, function designation numbers and message data, an indicating unit for indicating reception of the data, a RAM for storing receive... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5367555 | Medical data reporter A medical reporting system includes a medical data transmitter that receives medical data from a medical monitoring system. The medical data is then transmitted to a telephone network and received from the telephone network by a remote receiver. The medic... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5365227 | Method and apparatus for transmitting status information from a selective call receiver to an external electronic device A selective call receiver (100) for transmitting information to an external electronic device (208), such as a personal computer, includes a memory (125) for storing a predetermined status menu including at least one status category associated with intern... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5258751 | Method of presenting messages for a selective call receiver A selective call receiver (200) is capable of receiving messages and storing the messages for subsequent retrieval by a user. The selective call receiver (200) assigns a status designation (706) and a chronological order (704) to each stored message, and ... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5225826 | Variable status receiver A selective call receiver, such as a pager, has a real-time clock and is capable of determining the response of the receiver to a message in accordance with a status associated with that message. The selective call receiver can also change the status at a... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5115233 | Shared data/voice communication system with programmable data priority A shared data/voice communication system wherein data traffic may be guaranteed priority at a set, but programmable, level of system capacity and wherein interference between such data and voice traffic is effectively minimized. The system operates on sta... | 05/19/1992 |
| 4988991 | Selective call receiving apparatus A selective call receiving apparatus including a memory. When a new message is to be stored in the memory of which all memory regions have message information stored, the message information for the selective calling number of the lowest priority level of... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4959648 | Dual dynamic priority control in a selctive call system A selective call control center is provided for transmission of calls to selective call receivers, such as paging receivers. In a first aspect, priorities are assigned to call sources and to call receivers and the order of transmission of calls is determi... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4935735 | Selective call radio receiver silent alert mode entry system A selective call personal paging radio receiver has audio and visual means to alert the user when he or she receives a selective call transmission. The audio alerting means has low and high volume modes and a three position slide switch selects either the... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4894649 | Pager having time controlled functions A portable communication device provides user programmable control of addresses to which the portable communication device is responsive as a function of time. The device comprises a receiver, user programmable timing and function control, a memory, a con... | 01/16/1990 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
