Patent ID: 6392533
Filing Date: 2002-05-21
Classification: G08B,H04W

Abstract:
Pager for receiving a transmitted pager signal, including identification code data and message data, and for displaying said received message data, comprising:a receiving portion for receiving said transmitted pager signal; a demodulator for demodulating said received pager signal; a detector for detecting identification code data and detecting and receiving said message data when said identification code data agrees with an identification code assigned to said pager; an alert portion for alerting a user of said pager when said detected identification code data agrees with an identification code assigned to said pager; a dot matrix display, having dot matrix of aÃ—b, for displaying said message data, said a and b being natural numbers; a detection portion for detecting a total length of said message data to be displayed on said dot matrix display and whether or not said total length is larger than said a; a display control portion for displaying a portion of said message data on said dot matrix display, said display control portion scrolling a predetermined number of dots of said to be displayed message data provided to said dot matrix display at the same time every successive predetermined interval in the direction defined by said a when said total length is larger than said a so that said message data appears to be shifted by a given shift amount on said dot matrix display laid every successive predetermined interval; and a memory for storing first data indicative of said predetermined number and second data indicative of said predetermined interval, said display control portion displaying said portion of said message data on said dot matrix display with said message data scrolled by said predetermined number of dots every predetermined interval in accordance with said first and second data from said memory.