JPH11178029A - Radio selective calling receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To preclude the possibility of suddenly receiving a notice of service stop from a radio calling exchange and to allow the user to easily estimate monetary amount in a next moth's bill from a service enterprise. SOLUTION: A reception section 1 receives messages from a radio channel. A control section 3 checks whether or not the message includes a serial number that is a consecutive number. When no serial number is included, the control section 3 adds 1 to a calling number 8 that denotes the number of times of calling from the radio channel. The control section 3 obtains a skip number which denotes the number of messages skipped between the message received directly before this time and the message received this time, based on the serial number and increments the calling number 8 by one (the skip number +1), when the serial number is included. The control section 3 allows a display sections 5 to display the calling number 8. When the calling number 8 is larger than a charging start call number 7 which has been stored in advance in a storage section 2, the control section 3 allows the display section 5 to display an indication which denotes the start of charging.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio selective call receiver, and more particularly to a radio selective call receiver which counts and displays the number of calls.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to restrict a call to a radio selective call receiver, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-10291 is disclosed.
As disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 1 (1993), the radio call exchange counts the number of uses (the number of calls) and stops the service when the used balance count becomes 0 within the validity period. At this time, since the conventional radio selective calling receiver does not display the number of uses (the number of calls), the service is suddenly stopped because the number of uses is unknown. Also, in the case of a system in which the paging exchange does not impose a paging restriction, the owner of the paging receiver needs to pay a usage fee according to the frequency of use, but the conventional paging receiver does not have the number of calls. Does not indicate that charging has been started when a predetermined number of calls have been made to start charging, so that the user does not know that charging has started.

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional radio selective call receiver does not display the number of uses (the number of calls), so that the number of uses is not known. There's a problem. In addition, the conventional wireless selective call receiver does not indicate that charging has been started when the number of calls reaches a predetermined number of calls to start charging. Since it is used without knowing, there is a problem that it is difficult to predict the amount charged by the service provider in the next month.

[0004] An object of the present invention is to eliminate such a drawback in the prior art, and to provide a radio selective call receiver in which the service call is not likely to be suddenly stopped by the radio call exchange and the billing amount from the service provider in the next month can be easily predicted. To provide.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A first radio selective call receiver of the present invention is called by a paging signal from a radio line and receives a message. The radio selective call receiver receives a message based on the received message. The number of calls indicating the number of calls from the wireless line is obtained and this number is displayed.

A second radio selective call receiver of the present invention is called by a paging signal from a radio line, and receives a message, and the received message includes a serial number indicating a serial number. Investigate whether or not, when the serial number is not included, count the number of calls indicating the number of times called from the wireless line is one, when the serial number is included, the previously received message and the currently received message The number of skips indicating the number of unreceived messages in between is obtained from the serial number, and the number of calls is counted by adding 1 to the number of skips, and the counted number of calls is displayed. .

[0007] The first and second radio selective call receivers of the present invention display a message indicating that charging is started when the counted number of calls becomes larger than a predetermined number. I have.

A third radio selective call receiver according to the present invention is a radio selective call receiver which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, and receives and outputs a message from the radio line. And a control unit that receives the message from the receiving unit, determines the number of calls indicating the number of calls from the wireless line based on the message, and displays the number of calls.

A fourth radio selective call receiver according to the present invention is a radio selective call receiver which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, and receives and outputs a message from the radio line. And receiving the message from the receiving unit to check whether a serial number indicating a serial number is included in the message.If the serial number is not included, the number of calls indicating the number of times called from the wireless line is set to one. When the serial number is included, the number of skips indicating the number of unreceived messages between the previously received message and the currently received message is obtained from the serial number, and the number of calls is set to 1 And a control unit that counts the number of times of addition and displays the counted number of calls. To have.

In the third and fourth radio selective call receivers according to the present invention, the control unit causes a display indicating that charging is started when the number of times of calling becomes larger than a predetermined number of times. I have to.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a radio selective call receiver which is called by a call signal from a radio channel and receives and outputs a message from the radio channel in a radio selective call receiver. And an operation unit for inputting a predetermined number of billing start calls indicating the number of calls to start charging, a storage unit for storing the number of billing start calls, and the number of billing start calls input from the operation unit. The message stored in the storage unit is received, the message output by the receiving unit is received, and it is checked whether a serial number indicating a serial number is included in the message. If the serial number is not included, the number of times of calling from the wireless line Is counted, and when the serial number is included, the message received last time and the message received this time are counted. A control unit that determines the number of skips indicating the number of unreceived messages between the serial numbers, counts the number of calls by adding 1 to the number of skips, and displays the counted number of calls. , Is configured.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the radio selective call receiver according to the first aspect of the present invention, the control unit may display a message indicating that billing is started when the number of calls is greater than the number of billing start calls. I have.

[0013]

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a radio selective calling receiver according to the present invention.

The present embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is a radio selective call receiver which is called by a paging signal from a radio line and receives a message, and receives a message from the radio line and outputs the same. A predetermined number of charging start calls 7 indicating the number of calls 8 to start charging
, A storage unit 2 for storing the number of billing start calls 7, and a storage unit 2 for storing the number of billing start calls 7 input from the operation unit 4, and the message output by the receiving unit 1 is stored in the storage unit 2. It checks whether the received message includes a serial number indicating a serial number. If the serial number is not included, the number of calls 8 indicating the number of times called from the wireless line is counted by one, and if the serial number is included, The number of skips indicating the number of unreceived messages between the previously received message and the currently received message is obtained from the serial number, and the number of calls 8 is skipped to 1
And the control unit 3 that counts the number of times of addition and displays the counted number of calls 8.

The control section 3 displays a message indicating that charging is started when the number of calls 8 becomes larger than the number of charging start calls 7.

Next, the operation of the radio pager according to this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the user operates the operation unit 4 to input in advance a charging start call number 7 indicating a call start number 8 for starting charging, which is predetermined by a contract with a service provider. The control unit 3 causes the storage unit 2 to store the charging start call count 7 input from the operation unit 4. Next, when the receiving unit 1 receives and outputs a message from the wireless line, the control unit 3 receives the message output by the receiving unit 1 and checks, for example, whether or not the month has changed (S1). Indicates that the month has changed, the count area 6 in the storage unit 2 for counting and storing the number of calls 8 indicating the number of times called from the wireless line is initialized to 0, for example (S2). And the control part 3
It is checked whether or not the message received from the receiving unit 1 includes a serial number indicating a serial number (S3). If the check result indicates that the serial number is not included, the number of calls stored in the count area 6 8 is incremented by one (S4), and the process continues to step S7. Step 3
If the result of the check in (S3) indicates that the serial number is included, the number of unreceived messages between the currently received message and the previously received message stored in the storage unit 2, for example. Is obtained from the serial number included in the message received this time and the serial number included in the previously received message (S5), and the number of calls 8 in the count area 6 is counted by adding 1 to the number of skips ( S6) The number of calls 8 of the count area 6 is displayed on the display unit 5 (S7). Next, it is checked whether or not the number of calls 8 of the count area 6 is larger than the number of charging start calls 7 previously stored in the storage unit 2 (S8).
A display indicating that charging is started is displayed on the display unit 5 (S
9) The message received this time is stored in the storage unit 2 (S
10), end. If the result of the check in step 8 (S8) does not indicate that the result has become large, step 10 is executed.
Continue to (S10).

[0020]

As described above, according to the radio selective calling receiver of the present invention, when the message received from the radio line does not include the serial number indicating the serial number, the call indicating the number of times called from the radio line is included. The number of times is counted, and if the serial number is included, the number of skips indicating the number of unreceived messages between the previously received message and the currently received message is obtained from the serial number, and the number of calls is 1 for the number of skips. The number of calls added is counted, and the counted number of calls is displayed, and when the number of calls is greater than the number of billing start calls, a display indicating that charging is to be started is displayed. Since the number of uses (number of calls) is known, there is no possibility that the service will be suddenly stopped by the wireless calling switch, and Because it can be seen that the charge has been started, it is easy to forecast the invoice amount from the next month of service providers.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a radio selective calling receiver according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of an operation according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Receiving part 2 Storage part 3 Control part 4 Operation part 5 Display part 6 Count area 7 Billing start calling number 8 Calling number

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A radio selective call receiver, which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, obtains the number of calls indicating the number of calls from the radio line based on the received message, and determines the number of calls. A radio selective call receiver characterized by displaying. 2. A radio selective call receiver, which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, checks whether or not the received message includes a serial number indicating a serial number, and includes the serial number. If not, the number of calls indicating the number of calls from the wireless line is counted by one, and if the serial number is included, the number of unreceived messages between the previously received message and the currently received message The radio selective call receiver characterized in that the number of calls indicating the number of calls is obtained from the serial number, the number of calls is counted by the number obtained by adding 1 to the number of calls, and the counted number of calls is displayed. 3. A display is provided to indicate that charging is started when the counted number of calls exceeds a predetermined number.
Or the radio selective call receiver according to 2. 4. A radio selective call receiver which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, a receiving unit for receiving and outputting a message from a radio line, and receiving the message from the reception unit. And a control unit for obtaining a number of calls indicating the number of calls from the wireless line based on the message and displaying the number of calls. 5. A radio selective call receiver which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, a receiving unit for receiving and outputting a message from a radio line, and receiving the message from the reception unit. Check if the message contains a serial number indicating the serial number,
When the serial number is not included, count the number of calls indicating the number of times called from the wireless line one,
When the serial number is included, the number of skips indicating the number of unreceived messages between the previously received message and the currently received message is obtained from the serial number, and the number of calls is added to the number of skips by one. A control unit that counts the number of calls and displays the counted number of calls. 6. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the control unit displays a message indicating that charging is started when the number of calls is greater than a predetermined number.
Or the radio selective call receiver according to 5. 7. A radio selective call receiver which is called by a call signal from a radio line and receives a message, a receiving unit for receiving and outputting a message from a radio line, and a pre-set indicating the number of calls to start charging. An operation unit for inputting a predetermined number of billing start calls, a storage unit for storing the number of billing start calls, and a storage unit for storing the number of billing start calls input from the operation unit. The received message is checked to determine whether a serial number indicating a serial number is included in the message.When the serial number is not included, the number of calls indicating the number of times called from the wireless line is counted by one. If a serial number is included, the unreceived message between the last received message and the current received message A control unit for obtaining the number of skips indicating the number of pages from the serial number, counting the number of calls by the number obtained by adding 1 to the number of skips, and displaying the counted number of calls. Wireless selective call receiver. 8. The wireless communication device according to claim 7, wherein the control unit displays a message indicating that billing is started when the number of calls is greater than the number of billing start calls. Selective call receiver.