Patent ID: 7778594
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A paging and communications apparatus, comprising: (a) a master unit operable to store an informational message, wherein said informational message comprises a static data set and a scrolling data set; (b) a communications network connected to said master unit; (c) a plurality of base units, each of said base units connected to said communications network wherein said base units may receive the informational message from said master unit, and wherein each of said base units comprises: (i) an input interface operable to receive one of a plurality of pager identifiers; (ii) a processor operable to receive a pager identifier and generate an alert signal associated with the pager identifier; and (iii) a transmitter operable to transmit the pager identifier, the informational message, and the alert signal; and (d) a plurality of pager units, each of said pager units identified with one of the pager identifiers, wherein each of said plurality of pager units comprises: (i) a receiver operable to receive the pager identifier, informational message, and the alert signal from an associated one of said base units; (ii) a processor operable to generate an alert if the alert signal is associated with the pager identifier associated with a particular pager unit; (iii) a display unit operable to display the informational message, and (iv) wherein the display unit of each of the plurality of pager units comprises a first display and a second display, and wherein said displaying step comprises the display of the static data set on the first display and the display of the scrolling data set on the second display.