Patent ID: 6545590
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
A radio pager for receiving from a base station a paging signal including an address code group and a message code group, said message code group including message data and musical note data, and displaying, upon a coincidence of an address code of said address code group with an address code assigned to said radio pager, a message on an LCD while causing a speaker to sound an alert tone, said radio pager comprising:a controller which separates the paging signal into the address code group and the message code group, and separates the message code group into the message data and the musical note data; and a melody generator which generates said alert tone in response to said coincidence, said alert tone corresponding to, and reproducing at least a portion of the musical note data separated by said controller from the message code group; a said controller further comprising a message conversion table for storing a plurality of first frequencies, each corresponding to a respective musical note data, and a plurality of first musical notes, said first musical notes respectively corresponding to said plurality of said first frequencies.