Patent ID: 6879245

Claim:
A radio paging receiver with a display unit, said display unit comprising: a character generator for generating characters for forming a message; a display screen for displaying the message; and a controller which controls said display screen, so that (1) if the total number of characters in the message is less than or equal to a first predetermined number, then a first character size is selected, (2) if the total number of characters is more than the first predetermined number but less than or equal to a second predetermined number, then a second character size smaller than the first character size is selected, and (3) if the total number of characters is more than the second predetermined number, then a third character size smaller than the second character size is selected, wherein, if the third character size is selected, and the total number of characters is equal to or greater than a third predetermined number, which is greater than the second predetermined number, then the controller displays the message on successive display screens, and wherein the controller selects a character size from among the first, the second, and the third character sizes only one time for each given message.