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Method of sending information to a pager

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CA2191276A1
CA2191276A1 CA002191276A CA2191276A CA2191276A1 CA 2191276 A1 CA2191276 A1 CA 2191276A1 CA 002191276 A CA002191276 A CA 002191276A CA 2191276 A CA2191276 A CA 2191276A CA 2191276 A1 CA2191276 A1 CA 2191276A1
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paging system
calling party
pager
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Jackson Chang
David Lin
Charlie Tu
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Inventec Corp
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Inventec Corp
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Priority to GB9624554A priority patent/GB2319645B/en
Priority to SG1996011460A priority patent/SG52870A1/en
Publication of CA2191276A1 publication Critical patent/CA2191276A1/en
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04WWIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W88/00Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
    • H04W88/18Service support devices; Network management devices
    • H04W88/185Selective call encoders for paging networks, e.g. paging centre devices

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Abstract

A method for automatically sending information of a calling party to a pager of a called party via the use of a paging system is disclosed. The method includes setting some data pertinent to the paging system and the pager in a telephone set. Thereafter, information originating from the calling party through a telephone network is retrieved by the telephone set, and is stored in the telephone set. The use of the paging system is requested via sending the data pertinent to the paging system and the pager. Finally, the stored information of the calling party is sent to the paging system, and is further sent to the pager by the paging system.

Description

METHOD OF SENDING INFORMATION TO A PAGER

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of autom~tic~lly sending information of a calling party to a pager of a called party via the use of a paging system.
2. Description of the Prior Art Since ~l~x~n~ r Graham Bell ~lru~ ed eApcllll~llls on a device for sending signals over a conductive wire, the telephone has been growing as a practical device in 15 the modern day. FIG. 1 shows the block diagram of a tclepholle set. Whenever a caller lifts the handset 10, or referred to as off hook, the telephone network or telephone system is then requested and ready for use by an intlir~ted dial tone. Thereafter, the number of a called party is sent to the telephone network by rotating a dial 12 or by pressing number keys 14. A ringing signal detecting circuit or a ringer 16 in the 20 telephone set of the called party detects the ringing signal and consequently generates some audible tone. After the handset on the called side is li~ed, both parties can co"",l~l";t.~le to each other through lr~ro~ g sound wave to or from electrical signals by the receiver (earpiece) 18 and the lr~ r (mouthpiece) 19.

-2191~76 As the ~ lb~l of the telephones increases, a central office .oY~h~n~e (CO) is established to switch among the telephones. Each telephone is conn.qcted to the central office through a local loop col~ of the two wires or four wires. The status of the handset is detected by the CO through this local loop where a dc voltage, usually about 5 48 volts, is provided by the CO. When the number of the connected telephones further increases, a public switched telephone network is employed to accommodate more telephone cormections in an effective manner.

As the telephone n~Lwolk grows larger and more comrlir~ted~ varieties of 10 functions and services become available. Caller itl~ntifi-~tion (ID) display is a new service available in some modern telephone l~lwolk, where the caller ID is sent during the beginnin~ of the ringing. FIG. 2A shows a simplified block diagram of the Bellcore used inNorth ~ ;c~ lldlillg that the caller ID 2o is L~ ed between two firstring patterns 21, 22. The caller ID is usually l~ -;L~ed by a modulation method such as 15 frequency shift keying (FSK). FIG. 2B shows another simplified block diagram of the method used in Great Britain, demo~l,dl"lg that the caller ID 23 is ~ led after the channel is seized 24, but before the ringing 25.

Caller ID display is a convenient service to the public, however the display 20 becomes useless when the called party does not stay near the telephone set to answer the call. Therer~re, a need has been arisen to provide a method to imm~ tely notice the called party who misses the call.

' SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

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In accordance with the present invention, a method is provided for autom~tic~lly sending il~o~ alion of a calling party to a pager of a called party via the use of a paging system. In one embodiment, a setting procedure is firstly performed. A
5 paging system llun~l of a pager station is set in the telephone set, and a pager llunllxr is also set. A wait time setting is optionally used for inserting a period of the wait time l~lweell sending the paging system number and sending the pager number. Further, a code is set for specifically il.di~ p to the paging system what type of the following content is, and a flag is used int~-.rn~lly to assert the action of the present invention. The 10 data mentioned above are stored in a memory area such as a random access memory device.

In the beginning of a phone call, the caller ID i~o~ alion is retrieved by the caller ID retrieving device and stored in lllt;l~Ol y area-such as a RAM. Before the ringing 15 stops, if the h~n-lset of the telephone set is lifted, the present invention ends. On the contrary, if the call is not al~swered, the stored flag is checked, and a switch is closed or offhooked, followed usually by a delay of a few seconds to ensure that the connection to the local loop becomes electrically stable. The use of the paging system is then requested via dialing out the paging system number, delaying a period of the set wait 20 time and dialing out the pager llulllbel. After a connection to the pager has succeede~l~
the caller ID i~ ion is sent to the pager. Usually, the code is sent before the caller ID il~ln~lion is sent. Finally, the switch is opened or on hooked.

If another phone call comes while the caller ID illrolmalion is s~n~ling, the caller ID il~lllralion of the coming phone call is retrieved using the interval such as the delayed wait time or the delay period. Further, if the CPU is fast enough, the retrieving operation and the sending opcldLiol} can be pc~ ed col~ lel,lly.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows the block diagram of a conventional tekphone set.
FIG. 2A shows a simplified block diagram of the Bellcore paging system used in North American.
FIG. 2B shows another simplified block diagram of a paging system used in Great Britain.
FIG. 3 shows a traditional paging system.
FIG. 4 shows an encoding of the control center number and the pager number in a conventional paging system.
~IG. 5A shows the block diagram of a telephone set in connection with the present invention.
FIG. 5B shows a telephone set in connection with the present invention.
FIG. 5C demol~lldles one situation occurred in lltili7ing the present invention.FIG. 6 shows the flow diagram of the setting procedure according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 shows that the set data and the retrieved caller ID information are stored in a n~l,loly area.
FIG. 8 shows a ilow diagram of the procedure according to the ple~;lled embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

In order to solve the problem mentioned in the background, the present 5 invention provides a method that utilizes an ~ ç,-l paging system to imm~ tely send il~ulll~lion of a calling party to a pager of a called party who misses the call.

FIG. 3 shows a paging system which includes a control center or paging control tçrmin~l (PCT) 30, some base stations 32 conn~ctetl to the control center 30 via 10 conductive wire 34. When a caller re4ue~ing the use ofthe paging system by dialing the control center number, followed by s-Qntlinp the pager nulllber, the pager 36 will receive the ele illo,~-~gneti~ wave from a nearby base station 32, and an audible sound or a display is then generated on the pager.

Public paging system is one type among the paging svstems used today.
Coverage of five to eight kilometers is usually achieved by a base station having at least power of 100-watts. Another type of paging system is a private system used in a limited building or area such as a plant, a construction site or a business building.

The encoding of the control center llulllber and the pager number can be dia~ for di~e~ paging system or dil~el~ell~ area. Following is one example of the encoding:
070 + A (area code) + XXXX...X (9 digits) A corresponding flow diagram is shown in FIG. 4. When a dial tone is heard 219127~

40, dial 41 the arole~llellLioned encoded format, 070AXXXX...X. After the format is verified by the control center (step 42), a code such as "#" is pressed (step 44), followed by at most 20 characters and the "#" again.

One embodiment of the present invention is described in the following paragraphs. FIG. 5A shows the block diagram of a telephone set in connection with the present invention. A central processing unit (CPU) 103 controls a caller ID retrieving device 101, which is used to retrieve the caller ID il~.~ ion in the beginning of each phone call. The software program which implements the control procedures resides in a read only lll~nl~l.y (ROM) 102, and some set data and the retrieved caller ID il~lll~lion are stored in a nlellloly device 104 such as a random access memory (RAM), a flash memory or an el~ct~ lly eldsablc pro~d~ ~ble read only lllel~Ol~ (EEPROM). The CPU 103 also controls a ~ ecei~l circuit 108 and a dialing circuit 107, which sends out signal frequency pertinent to a dialing telephone number. Conventional ringer 109 and ringing signal detecting circuit 110 are connected to the local loop from a central office e~ch~nge (CO). Further, a liquid crystal display (LCD) & key pad circuit 105 is used to control the input/output of a telephone sêt shown in FIG. 5B, where the caller ID illrolll~lion is shown in a LCD panel 210, and the phone number is input using the key pad 204.
FIG. 5C demonstrates one situation occurred in utili7ing the present invention.
The calling party 302 originates a phone call to the phone set 301 of the called party via a telephone llelwolk 303 such as a public switched telephone l1elwu-k (PSTN) or a private switched telephone l1eLwulk. Assume the called party misses this phone call, the 219127ii pager 305 held by the called party will non~th~less receive some caller ID i~ ion sent by the telephone set 301 of the called party via the telephone ~t;lwolk 303 and the paging system 304 accor~ to the present invention.

Before the operation mentioned above begins, a setting procedure, shown in FIG. 6, must be pc,rolll.ed. A paging system null~r, which is usually the number of the pager station to be requested, is set (step 60) in the telephone set of FIGs. 5A and 5B. In step 61, a pager llullll~l is set consequently. The wait time setting in step 62 is optionally used for i,ls~lling a period ofthe wait time belweell sending the paging system number and sending the pager number later in connection with the operation in FIG. 8.

A code is set in step 63 for specifically in(li~ting to the paging system what type of the following content is. A flag is further used (step 64) int~rn~lly to assert the action of the present invention. It is understood that the flag can be omitted to pe. ~ ly turn on the action. It is also noted that the sequence of the above setting can be altered without dep~l-llg from the spirit of the present invention. The above set data are stored in a lll~ oly area 70, such as a RAM, a flash lll~llloly or an EEPROM, as shown in FIG. 7, where the paging system nulll~r, the pager number, the wait time, the code and the flag are ~ .ecliv~ly de~ign~ted as 701 through 705.
FIG. 8 shows a flow diagram of a pl~e~lled embodiment according to the present invention. In the beginning of a phone call, the caller ID such as the caller's number and the call's name are retrieved by the caller ID lellic~vi,lg device in step 80 and stored in memory area such as a RAM, a flash memory or an EEPROM in step 81.

Numeral 72 in FIG. 7 dç~;p.-~es how the caller's number 707, the caller's name 708 and additional data 709 are stored in the memory area. Before the ringing $ops, if the handset of the telephone set is li~ed, the YES branch of block 82 is followed and thus ends the present invention. On the CO~ y, if the call is not answered, the stored flag is 5 ch~lfed (step 83) whether the following operation is asserted. If the check result is YES, the switch 111 in FIG. 5A is thereafter closed or offhooked in step 84, followed usually by a delay of a few seconds to ensure that the connection to the local loop is electrically stable in step 85.

The use of the paging system is then requested via dialing out the paging system ll~nbel (step 86), delaying a period of the set wait time (step 87) and dialing out the pager llum~r (step 88). After a connection to the pager has s~lcceeded, the caller ID
il~ln~lion such as the caller's number 707, shown in FIG. 7, is sent (step 90) to the pager. Usually, the code 704, shown in FIG. 7, is sent (step 89) before the caller ID
15 il~u~ ion is sent. It is understood that other i,~û~n~alion, such as the caller's name 708 or the additional data 709, shown in FIG. 7, can also be sent to the pager and only limited to the capacity under the associated paging system. Finally, the switch 111 in the FIG. 5A is opened or on hooked in step 91 to disconnect the telephone set from the telephone network.
There is a possibility that another phone call may come while the caller ID
information is sending during step 84 through stet 97. The situation can be solved without missing any coming phone call by r~ villg the caller ID il~lll~tion of the coming phone call using the interval such as the delayed wait time in step 87 or the delay 2l9l276 period in step 85. Further, if the CPU is fast enough, the l~llievi,lg operation and the sending operation can be pe~ ed CO1~U~ nL1Y.

Although specific embo-lim~ntc have been illu~LlaLed and described, it will be 5 obvious to those skilled in the art that various mo~1ific~ti-)n may be made without departing from the spirit which is int~n-lecl to be limited solely by the appended claims.
For example, the telephone l~lwolk mentioned above can be a public switched telephone network, a local loop or a private switched l~Lwolk. The present invention can be applied to each paging system having diLL'el~ellL protocol. Further, the 10 arol~lllc;llLioned pager can be a tone type pager, which only gelle~aLes an audible sound when co~ cle-l, or can be a character display or numeric display type pager, which usually has a LCD panel for displaying il,coll~lg chalacLer or nllm~ri~ message.

Claims (28)

What is claimed is:
1. A method for automatically sending information of a calling party to a pager of a called party via the use of a paging system, said method comprising the steps of:
setting a plurality of data pertinent to the paging system and the pager in a telephone set;
retrieving said information of the calling party by the telephone set, said information of the calling party being originated from the calling party through a telephone network, said information of the calling party being stored in the telephone set;
requesting the use of the paging system via sending the data pertinent to the paging system and the pager; and sending the stored information of the calling party to the paging system, said sent information being further sent to the pager by the paging system.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of data comprises:

a paging system number for requesting the use of the paging system;
a pager number for identifying the pager; and a code for indicating to the paging system the type of content in the sent information.
3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising setting a wait time for inserting the period of the wait time between sending the paging system number and sending the pager number.
4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising setting a flag to assert the action of said method.
5. The method according to claim 1. wherein said information of the calling party comprises:
a caller number designated as an identification of the calling party; and a caller name representing the name of the calling party.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said set data pertinent to the paging system and the pager are stored in a memory device.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said memory device is a member selected from the group consisting of a random access memory, a flash memory, an electrically erasable programmable read only memory, and combinations thereof.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said information of the calling party is stored in a memory device.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said memory device is a member selected from the group consisting of a random access memory, a flash memory, an electrically erasable programmable read only memory, and combinations thereof.
10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising connecting the telephone set to the telephone network after ringing ends.
11. The method according to claim 5, wherein said sent information of the calling party is the caller number.
12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising disconnecting the telephone set from the telephone network.
13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising retrieving another information of another calling party when the paging system being requesting.
14. The method according to claim 1, wherein said telephone network is connected to a central office exchange via a local loop.
15. The method according to claim 1, wherein said telephone network comprises a public switched telephone network.
16. The method according to claim 1, wherein said telephone network comprises a private switched telephone network.
17. A method for automatically sending information of a calling party to a pager of a called party via the use of a paging system, said method comprising the steps of:
setting a plurality of data pertinent to the paging system and the pager in a telephone set, said data comprising at least a paging system number for requesting the use of the paging system, a pager number for identifying the pager, and a code for indicating to the paging system the type of content in the sent information;
retrieving said information of the calling party by the telephone set, said information of the calling party being originated from the calling party through a public switched telephone network, and being stored in the telephone set, said information of the calling party comprising at least a caller number designated as an identification of the calling party, and a caller name representing the name of the calling party;
requesting the use of the paging system via sending the data pertinent to the paging system and the pager; and sending the stored information of the calling party to the paging system, said sent information being further sent to the pager by the paging system.
18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising setting a wait time for inserting the period of the wait time between sending the paging system number and sending the pager number.
19. The method according to claim 17, further comprising setting a flag to assert the action of said method.
20. The method according to claim 17, wherein said set data pertinent to the paging system and the pager are stored in a memory device.
21. The method according to claim 20, wherein said memory device is a member selected from the group consisting of a random access memory, a flash memory, an electrically erasable programmable read only memory, and combinations thereof.
22. The method according to claim 17, wherein said information of the calling party is stored in a memory device.
23. The method according to claim 22, wherein said memory device is a member selected from the group consisting of a random access memory, a flash memory, an electrically erasable programmable read only memory, and combinations thereof.
24. The method according to claim 17, further comprising connecting the telephone set to the public switched telephone network after ringing ends.
25. The method according to claim 17, wherein said sent information of the calling party is the caller number.
26. The method according to claim 17, further comprising disconnecting the telephone set from the public switched telephone network.
27. The method according to claim 17, further comprising retrieving another information of another calling party when the paging system being requesting.
28. The method according to claim 17, wherein said public switched telephone network is connected to a central office exchange via a local loop.
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