JPH09284822A - Radio selective calling receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the channel efficiency by limiting the number of reception enable times with a memory card purchased in advance and set to a count section so as to use a channel thereby eliminating the need for controlling the receiver from a transmitter side. SOLUTION: A decoder 3 demodulates a reception signal to output a service information signal when a call number to receive the service information is detected. The receiver is provided with a time designation section 5 designating in advance a time when reception of the service information is made available and a time compactor section 6 comparing the time when the service information is received with a designation time of the time designation section 5 to provide the output of a coincidence signal when the are coincident with each other. Then a counter section 7 counts down it from a preset number of times at each output of the coincidence signal, and when any residual number of times is in existence in the counter section 7, the service information signal is tentatively stored in a memory section 8. Then a notice section 9 reads the service information in the memory section 8 by a prescribed operation and notifies it.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio selective calling receiver, and more particularly to a radio selective calling receiver having a service information receiving function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the development of radio selective call receivers (hereinafter simply referred to as "receivers") has been remarkably mainstream with a display function. Also, as a new service, a service for transmitting service information such as weather forecasts and news has started, and receiver users can receive this service for a fee if they wish.

However, there are cases where the receiver is late in paying this service charge, and various methods have been considered as measures against this, for example, in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 62-202620 Radio Selective Call Receiver, individual A call number for selection and a call number for receiving service information are provided, and whether or not the receiver can receive the service information is controlled by a control signal following the individually selected call number. For example, if the receiver fails to pay the fee, the sender calls the receiver with the individual selective call number, sends a control signal, and the receiver sends the control contents to the receiver via an EEPROM or the like. This is to prevent service information from being received.

[0004]

As described above, since the conventional receiver controls the reception of service information by the control signal following the individual selective call signal from the transmitting side, the radio wave is occupied during this control. Therefore, there is a problem that the service to other receivers cannot be performed.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A radio selective calling receiver according to the present invention receives a radio signal and detects the calling number for receiving service information such as weather forecast or news from the received signal. Receiving section for demodulating the service information signal and outputting the service information signal, a time designating section for designating a time when the service information can be received in advance, a time when the service information signal is received, and designating the time designating section A time comparison unit that compares the time and outputs a match signal when they match, a counter unit that counts down to the match signal from a preset number, and the service information signal is temporarily stored when the counter unit has a remaining number. A memory unit for storing a memory and a notification unit for reading the service information signal of the memory unit by a predetermined operation to notify it are provided.

Further, the time designation unit may designate a day of the week on which the service information is received.

Further, the time designation unit may change the designated time according to the contents of the service information.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. This figure shows the part related to the reception of service information of the receiver, and the part related to the reception of message information by the individual selective call is omitted.

The radio signal transmitted from the transmitting side is transmitted to the antenna 1
The received signal is amplified by the RX unit 2 and demodulated.
The decoder 3 decodes this demodulated signal into a readable signal. Further, the decoder 3 compares the calling number at the beginning of the received signal with its own calling number for receiving the service information previously written in the IDROM section 4, and when they match, the received signal containing the service information that follows. Is output to the time comparison unit 6.

The time designating section 5 outputs a time designating signal indicating the time when the service information can be received, and the time comparing section 6 confirms the reception of the service information by receiving the received signal from the decoder 3 and the time designating signal. Compare the arrival timing of. If the result of comparison is that they match, a match signal is output to the counting section 7.
Output to

The count unit 7 counts down one time from the preset number of receivable times, and when there is a remaining amount, the service information data is stored in the memory unit 8.
After storing in the memory 8, the notification unit 9 is notified that the service information has been received. In addition, the notification unit 9 reads the service information from the memory unit 8 in response to the operation of the receiver user, and notifies the content of the service information by a display or a speaker.

The above series of operations will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, the decoder 3 determines whether or not the calling number of the service information included in the received signal received from the transmitting side is detected (S1). If detected, it is determined whether or not the arrival of this received signal is the designated time. Judge with (S
2). If it is the designated time, the counting unit 7 determines whether there is a remaining number of times the reception is permitted (S3), and if there is a remaining number, the count is decremented (S4), and the reception service information is stored in the memory 8. Is stored (S4,5). If there is no remaining number, the reception service information is stored in the memory 8
It is not stored in and is notified that the remaining number is 0 (S
7). The service information stored in the memory 8 is notified by a display or a speaker by a predetermined operation.

A memory card such as a telephone card is used to store the number of receivable times of the counting section 7,
The number of times stored in the memory is counted down each time it is received, and when it becomes 0, it cannot be received. Therefore, the user purchases this card and re-purchase it when the remaining number is exhausted.

Further, the designated time stored in the time designation unit 5 is set in a time zone in which normal traffic is low, so that the line efficiency on the transmitting side is not lowered. In addition, the day of the week may be specified instead of the time in this time specification. Further, if the time zone or the day of the week is designated according to the content of the service information, the service content can be further diversified.

[0015]

As described above, the radio selective call receiver of the present invention limits the number of receivable times by the memory card which is purchased in advance and set in the counting section as a measure for preventing the payment delay of the reception fee of the service information. Since there is no need to control the receiver from the transmitting side using the line, there is an effect that the line efficiency is improved. Further, by setting the reception time of the service information to a low traffic time, the line efficiency is improved, and further, if the reception time is divided according to the content of the service information, various services can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Antenna 2 RX Section 3 Decoder 4 IDROM Section 5 Time Designation Section 6 Time Comparison Section 7 Count Section 8 Memory 9 Notification Section

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A receiver for receiving a radio signal and demodulating the received signal to output a service information signal when a calling number for receiving service information such as weather forecast or news is detected from the received signal, A time designation unit that pre-designates a time at which service information can be received and a time comparison unit that compares the time when the service information signal is received with the designated time of the time designation unit and outputs a match signal when they match. Section, a counter section that counts down each time the match signal is output from a preset number of times, a memory section that temporarily stores the service information signal when the counter section has a remaining number of times, and the service of the memory section A radio selective calling receiver, comprising: a notifying unit for reading out an information signal by a predetermined operation and notifying the information signal. 2. The radio selective calling receiver according to claim 1, wherein the time designation unit designates a day of the week on which the service information is received. 3. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 1, wherein the time designation unit changes the designated time according to the content of the service information.