Patent ID: 6169908
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A telecommunications systems for establishing selective reachability between a user and a preferred group of callers, comprising: a telecommunications device to be used in a telecommunications network and a terminal, said terminal comprising a radiotelephone section and a pager section, wherein the pager section can be uncoupled from the radiotelephone section; said telecommunications device comprising paging means for only transmitting calls from callers, who form part of the preferred group of callers, to the pager section if the pager section is uncoupled from the radiotelephone section; wherein said terminal further comprises coupling detection means for detecting whether the pager section is uncoupled from the radiotelephone section and, in response thereto, for transmitting an indication signal thereof to the paging means; and wherein the telecommunications device further comprises message storage means for storing messages from callers who do not form part of the preferred group of callers if the pager section is uncoupled from the radiotelephone section.