JP3407407B2 - Message data receiving device - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to relates to a message data receiving equipment typified by the paging receiver.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, pagers are cheaper to use than car phones and mobile phones, so not only companies have them for phone calls from outside offices but also friends who are out and about. The number of cases where it is used as an easy communication tool with is rapidly increasing. As a conventional access means to a pager, there is a telephone for an individual, a company, and an operation service company, a personal computer, a service information processing company for a service information provider.

The information created by these access means is sent to the pager service company via the public line network, and the pager service company creates and sends the send information for each page number of the pager owned by the individual or the company. It The pager includes an NP (Numeric Pager) type capable of receiving numerical information and an IP (Information Pager) type capable of receiving character information.

Further, the pager has a function of receiving and displaying various service information (message data) such as stock price information provided by an information service company. In this case, the receiver side is each sender information. By making a reception contract with a service company, desired service information can be received.

[0005]

However, such a conventional paging system has a function of receiving and displaying various service information, but in this case, the same service information is not received on the receiver side. Since they are stored in the same memory area, there is a problem that the confirmation operation is time-consuming when only specific service information is desired to be viewed.

Further, when the specific service information is classified and stored, the receiver needs to perform the classification operation according to the contents of the received information after receiving the service information.
There was an operation.

The problem of the present invention is that the particular type desired by the recipient.
Received message, more specifically the message specified by the recipient.
You can easily display the received message in sage format.
By providing a message data receiving device that can
is there. Another object of the present invention is to provide a message data receiving device having a function of automatically classifying and storing received messages according to the message format designated by the recipient.

[0008]

The invention according to claim 1 is
In a message data receiving device for receiving transmitted message data and storing the received message data in a memory so that the message data can be read and displayed , an operator operates a characteristic part of the message data read from the memory. And a message format registration means for registering the characteristic part of the message data specified by this specification means as a classification message format for classifying and storing the received message data according to the message format. Storage control means for retrieving the message format corresponding to the message data from the message format registered by the message format registration means, classifying the received message data for each retrieved message format, and storing it in the memory. Specially equipped It is set to. In this case, the memory stores a storage area corresponding to a message format corresponding to each message format registered by the message format registration means, in which received message data of the message format is stored, and other received message data. The storage control unit has a storage area that does not support a message format, and the storage control unit stores a message from the message data stored in the storage area that does not support the message format when a new message format is registered by the message format registration unit. It is desirable that the message data having the same format as the registered new message format is searched and extracted, and the extracted message data is stored in the storage area corresponding to the newly registered message format. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in a message data receiving device that receives message data to be transmitted and stores the message data in a memory, and reads and displays the message data stored in the memory, the message read from the memory is displayed. <br /> In order to display the specified part of the message data specified by the specifying means for specifying the characteristic part of the message data by the operation of the operator and the specified part of the message data specified by the specifying means from the memory. Message format registering means for registering as a message format for searching, a means for designating a message format of message data to be displayed from the message data stored in the memory, and a message format designated by the designating means. The message data of the same message format is written in the memo. It is characterized by comprising a control means for displaying retrieved from.

[0009]

According to the invention described in claim 1, in a message data receiving device for receiving message data to be transmitted and storing the received message data in a memory so that the message data can be read and displayed, When the characteristic part of the read message data is designated by the designating means, the characteristic part of the designated message data is classified as the message format for storing the received message data according to the message format, and the message format registering means is provided. The message format corresponding to the received message data is searched by the storage control means from the message format registered by the message format registration means, and the received message data is classified according to the searched message format. Save in the memory. Therefore, the user of the message data receiving device can freely classify and save the received message data, and the file management can be facilitated.
Further, since the received message data is automatically classified and stored based on the registered format data, a complicated operation for classifying and saving the received message can be omitted.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the message data receiving device receives the message data to be transmitted and stores it in the memory, and reads and displays the message data stored in the memory.
The characteristic part of the message data read from the memory is
When designated by the designating means, the characteristic part of the designated message data is registered in the message format registering means as a retrieval message format for retrieving and displaying a specific type of received message data from the memory, When the message format is specified by the means for specifying the message format of the message data to be displayed from the message data stored in the memory, the control means displays the message data of the same message format as the specified message format. It is retrieved from the memory and displayed. Therefore, the user of the message data receiving device can easily search and display the received message of the specific type desired by the user from the received messages stored in the memory. That is, the user of the message data receiving device registers in advance the message format of a specific type of received message desired by the user,
When displaying the received message of that specific type,
By only specifying the message format, the received message of the specified message format can be automatically searched from the received messages stored in the memory and displayed, and complicated operation can be omitted.

[0011]

Embodiments Embodiments will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6 are views showing an embodiment of a pager to which the present invention is applied. First, the configuration will be described. Figure 1
It is a block block diagram of a pager. In this figure,
The pager 1 includes an antenna 2, an RF receiving unit 3, a decoder unit 4, an ID-ROM 5, a key input unit 6, a control unit 7, a message memory 8, a format message memory 9, and L.
It is composed of a CD driver 10, an LCD 11, and a sound output unit 12.

The antenna 2 receives a call signal wirelessly transmitted from an information service company (not shown) or the like and receives the RF signal from the RF receiving section 3.
Output to. The RF receiving unit 3 is controlled by the intermittent signal input from the decoder unit 4, intermittently receives the ringing signal input from the antenna 2, demodulates the received signal, and then outputs the received signal to the decoder unit 4.

The decoder section 4 collates the individual calling signal of the received signal demodulated by the RF receiving section 3 with the data stored in the ID-ROM 5, and if they match, the received signal following the individual calling signal. (Message data) is output to the control unit 7, and a sound signal is output to the sound unit 12 to output a notification sound to notify that there is a call.

The ID-ROM 5 stores data such as frames and addresses assigned to the pager 1 for receiving normal message data and service information,
Data such as frames and addresses stored under the control unit of the decoder unit 4 is output to the decoder unit 4.

The key input section 6 is composed of a section including operation keys for inputting the display contents of the LCD 11 and various switch sections. The operation key section is controlled by the control section 7 when a certain input operation is performed. A message is displayed on the LCD 11 by the processed display control signal, and various switch parts are composed of an end key, a format processing mode setting key, a message reading mode key, a cursor key, a format key, a format end key, and the like, which will be described later. The key input unit 6 has a function as a designating unit, designates a characteristic portion of the message data, and causes the control unit 7 to store the characteristic portion in the format message memory 9 as format data.

The control unit 7 includes a CPU (Central Processing).
Unit), ROM (Read) that stores various control programs
Only memory), a timer, an input register for holding key input operations in the key input unit 6, and the like.
Message data input from the decoder unit 4 based on various control programs stored in M is stored in the input register, and each circuit unit in the pager 1 is controlled in accordance with a control signal input from the key input unit 6. Control.

The control unit 7 also has a function as a storage control unit, and performs a message data format process, which will be described later, to specify the characteristic portion of the message data designated by the key input unit 6 and read from the message memory 8.
The received message is stored in the format message memory 9 as format data for setting the message format for classifying and saving, and the received message data is searched for the format data saved in the format message memory 9, and the corresponding format is searched. Based on the data, the received message data is stored in the message memory area in the corresponding format message memory 9.

The message memory 8 is, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, a baseball service information memory area 8a, a soccer service information memory area 8b, a weather forecast service information memory area 8c, and a normal message memory area 8
and the memory area 8a ...
The received message corresponding to 8d is stored.

The format message memory 9 has a function as a message format registration means, and as shown in FIG. 3, forms format memory areas 1 to N for registering format data when storing received message data for each format. A file name memory area and a message memory area 1 to M are formed for each format data stored in each format memory area 1 to N, and the characteristic portion of the message data designated by the key input unit 6 is the control unit. The data is registered as format data in the format memory area by 7.

The LCD driver 10 displays the character pattern on the LCD (Liquid Crystal) based on the message information and contact telephone number information input from the control unit 7.
Output to Di-play 11 and display.

Next, the operation will be described. First, the message data format process executed by the pager 1 of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. Message reading mode of the key input unit 6 When the reading of the message data stored in the message memory 8 is instructed by the key operation, the message reading process is started (step S1), and the message data designated by the cursor key operation is displayed. The message is read from the corresponding memory areas 8a to 8d in the message memory 8 and displayed on the LCD 11.

Next, it is determined whether or not the format processing mode is set by operating the key input unit 6 (step S2). If the format processing mode is not set, it is determined whether or not the end key has been instructed to operate. It is determined (step S3). If the end is not instructed, the process returns to step S1. If the end is instructed, this process is ended. In step S2,
When the format processing mode is set, the format processing is started (step S4).

Here, the format processing in step S4 will be described. First, when the format processing mode is set in step S2, the leading character of the message data read and displayed by the message reading processing of step S1 is highlighted. Here, for example, if the message data shown in FIG. 5A is displayed, “1” is highlighted.

The operator moves the highlighted display to the character (characteristic portion) to be formatted by operating the cursor keys, and then operates the format key to specify the format of the character.

After this operation is repeated and all the characters to be formatted have been designated, the format end key is operated to display an input screen for inputting a file name, and the operation key is used to input a file name (for example, a giant battle file). This completes the formatting process.

Then, when the end key is operated in step S5, the file name and format data (for example, FIG. 5B) input in step S4 are transferred to the file memory area and format in the format message memory 9. After registering in the memory area (step S6), this processing ends. By the above processing, the registration of the format data for setting the message format when classifying and storing the message data is completed.

Next, the message data receiving process executed by the pager 1 of this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. In the pager 1, when the decoder section 4 detects an incoming call through the antenna 2 and the RF receiving section 3, and the incoming call is notified to the control section 7, the control section 7
Starts the message data reception process, and the decoder unit 4
The received message data decoded and input in step S11 is taken in (step S11), and it is searched whether or not the data structure of the received message data corresponds to the format data registered in the format message memory 9 (step S12). ).

When the format data corresponding to the received message data is searched in step S13, the received message data is stored in the message memory area of the corresponding format data (step S1.
4) If the format data corresponding to the received message data has not been retrieved, the message data is stored in the message memory 8 (step S15), and this processing ends.

That is, in the message data receiving process, “Friday 19th, 18:00” shown in FIG.
When the message data "Giant vs. Yakult 12th Round 3: 1" is received, it is searched whether or not the received message data includes the data corresponding to the format data registered in the format message memory 9. , For example, format data named “Giant Battle File” “day ()
If "Giant pair" is registered in the format memory area, this is the case and it is stored in the message memory area of the "Giant battle file".

As described above, in the pager 1 of this embodiment, the user operates the key input unit 6 to read out any message data stored in the message memory 8 and arbitrarily set the format data and the file name. Since it can be set and registered in the format message memory 9, the user can freely classify and store the received message data, and the file management can be facilitated. Further, since the received message data is automatically classified and stored based on the registered format data, it is possible to omit the complicated operation of the related art.

In this embodiment, after the format data is registered, the received message data of the same format is classified and stored. However, when the format data is registered, the message memory 8 is also stored.
It is also possible to search and extract the message data of the same format stored in, and store it in the registered file.

Alternatively, the format data and the file name may be registered, and when the file is designated, the message data of the same format may be retrieved and extracted from the message memory 8 and displayed. Also, the format memory areas 1 to N in the format message memory 9 may be provided separately for each service information.

In the present embodiment, the case where the invention is applied to a pager has been described, but it may be an FM multiplex receiver, a mobile phone, or the like, and the point is that it is a device that can receive message data.

[0034]

According to the present invention, message data reception
A specific type of incoming message desired by the user of the device,
Specifically, the reception of the message format specified by the user himself
The message can be displayed easily. Sanawa
Then , according to the invention described in claim 1, the user of the message data receiving device can freely classify and store the received message data, and the file management can be facilitated. Further, since the received message data is automatically classified and stored based on the registered format data, a complicated operation for classifying and saving the received message can be omitted. According to the invention of claim 3,
If so, the user of the message data receiving device can
The message format of a specific type of incoming message
By registering, you can receive messages of that particular type.
When displaying the message, specify the message format.
The received message in the specified message format.
Automatically from received messages saved in memory
Can be searched and displayed, omitting complicated operations
be able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an internal block configuration diagram of a pager to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a message memory shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of the format message memory of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of message data format processing executed by the pager of this embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a specific example of message data and format data when creating format data.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of message data reception processing executed by the pager of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 pager 2 antenna 3 RF receiver 4 Decoder section 5 ID-ROM 6 Key input section 7 control unit 8 message memory 9 format message memory 10 LCD driver 11 LCD 12 news section

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A message data receiving apparatus for receiving message data to be transmitted, and storing the received message data in a memory so that the message data can be read and displayed. A characteristic part of the message data read from the memory. A message format registration for registering the specification means for specifying the message by the operator's operation and the characteristic part of the message data specified by the specification means as the classification message format for classifying and storing the received message data according to the message format Means and a message format corresponding to the received message data is searched from the message format registered by the message format registration means, and the received message data is classified according to the searched message format and saved in the memory. Control means, A message data receiving device characterized by being provided. 2. The memory stores a message area corresponding to each message format registered by the message format registering unit, in which a received message data of the message format is stored, and other received message data. The storage control unit has a storage area that does not support the message format, and the storage control unit stores the message data stored in the storage area that does not support the message format when a new message format is registered by the message format registration unit. Search for and extract the same message data as the new message format in which the message format is registered from
The message data receiving device according to claim 1, wherein the extracted message data is stored in a storage area corresponding to a newly registered message format. 3. A message data receiving apparatus for receiving message data to be transmitted and storing the same in a memory, and reading and displaying the message data stored in the memory , wherein a characteristic part of the message data read from the memory is displayed. A message for registering designation means designated by an operator's operation and a characteristic portion of the message data designated by this designation means as a retrieval message format for retrieving and displaying received message data of a specific type from the memory. Format registering means, means for designating a message format of message data to be displayed from the message data stored in the memory, and message data having the same message format as the message format designated by the designating means, Search from memory and display A message data receiving apparatus, comprising: