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Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages
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Inventors: Helferich, Richard J.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Hunter; Daniel
Assistant Examiner: Nguyen; Thuan T.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Zoltick Technology Law Group, PLLC
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 a message is waiting and preferably provides a short description of the message. The user can then download or otherwise act on the message at a time and at a place convenient to the user. The user can therefore place the paging transceiver in a location where it can easily receive and reply to the message. The paging system conserves air time and the paging transceiver conserves memory by not automatically receiving the associated messages. The user can determine the time at which the paging transceiver receives transmissions, such as during off-peak hours. The messages stored by the systems and delivered to the paging transceiver may be of different types, such as voice, text, audio, or even video. In addition to messages, the paging system can store other information for the user, such as songs or video clips that the user can sample or updates on weather or stock rates. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention solves the problems described above with methods and systems for selective paging.
A paging system notifies a paging transceiver that a message has been received but does not initially transmit the associated message.
The user, upon being notified of the message, can then download the entire message at a time convenient to the user, which allows the user to download messages at less-expensive off-peak hours and allows the user to place the paging transceiver at a location where it can easily receive the message and reply to the message.
Since the messages are not initially transmitted to the paging transceiver, the paging transceiver can receive and store a greater number of pages with minimal increase in the size of memory.
Further, because entire messages are not automatically transmitted and since the user can position the paging transceiver to issue a sufficiently strong reply, traffic in the paging system can be controlled and actually reduced.
The system may transmit some identifying information about the page to the user without sending the entire message.
For instance, the base station may identify the type of message, such as email, voice, or text, and also indicate the caller or other descriptive material about the message.
The user can then determine the priority of the message and whether he or she wants to retrieve the message, play the message, erase the message, store the message, forward, reply, or otherwise act on the message.
The user is also given control over the messages stored remotely from the paging transceiver and can erase or store these messages from the paging transceiver.
The paging transceiver may have a timer for allowing the user to program the paging transceiver to perform a desired function on a message at a particular time.
The information initially sent to the user may also indicate the location of the stored message.
For instance, the system paging a particular paging transceiver to notify it that a page has been received need not be the system actually storing the content of the message
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