KR20000007236A - Paging system having recognition response transmitting ability for right direction - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A paging system is provided to receive the advice about appropriate response recognition operation responding process about the fact that when a pager user respond and how a pager user respond by a director. CONSTITUTION: A paging system(10) has; a representing device established on a pager; a device for receiving the paging signal by a pager, for operating the representing device while specific intervals, for expressing the received address; a device for passively responding or not responding according to the expression that expresses that the fact that a message is received and expressed to the caller when passively responding while specific intervals.

Description

Paging system with ability to transmit awareness responses in the forward direction

The present invention relates generally to paging systems and, more particularly, to systems with responsiveness. In the described system, the device is equipped to assist the user or the wearer depending on whether an automatic recognition response is made, and if so, depending on when and when not to send the response, a separate and additional automatic response recognition signal is provided. Required.

Paging systems have evolved over the years in complexity as well as frequency and usage. Now it's really essential to business. In addition, various kinds of paging receivers have been developed. There's also a tone-only pager, a tone and voice pager, and recently a response pager that receives messages and shows them in letters and numbers. Moreover, many devices have been diversified to find the starting point of the paging message. It can be a voice call using a standard telephone, a voice using a pay terminal, or a voice through a video terminal.

All other types of paging receivers described in the future may be mixed in one system or such systems may be made in the form of one paging receiver. In some cases, there may be a process of confusing users to receivers with automatic recognition transmission features. For example, you may not know whether the user should respond by a separate operation. If so, press the Auto Recognize button.

The problem for the first caller and base station site is that, when called, the pager user receives an address and then is in a position to receive and understand the message. For example, the paging receiver is on a desk away from the user. In this case, the pager itself can receive the paging call even if it is on, but the pager user cannot receive the message because it is elsewhere. In a similar case, the paging receiver may be in a battery charging state, either receiving or sending an acknowledgment signal in the automatic reverse direction, but may be in a position where the user can receive the message. Furthermore, even if the pager responds to the recognition signal in the reverse direction of the user's hand and sends the signal, the transmission path may be blocked due to external obstacles in an office space. In special cases, sending a message may result in the message being lost.

Thus, despite the fact that the pager has the capability of acknowledgment of an automatic reverse signal to the receipt of an address call, it is often uncertain in some cases, and in some cases not only the responsibility of the user and when the call was received, but also the response from the caller. There may be confusion about a paging system that has the ability to respond automatically as expected.

Furthermore, uncertainty at the central or base site location as to where the pager was sent and where the call originated, as to whether the called pager user was capable and ready to receive or received and understood a particular outgoing message. There is this. Despite the fact that the address was sent and received by the called pager and the received auto-answer signal, there was a need for the caller to know whether there was a positive or negative response by the pager user at the central base station that initiated the call. have. A "positive recognition" response indicates that the user has received the message and has been answered in time and a negative response indicates that there has been a lack of confirmation.

1 is a graphical depiction of a call system with automated answering capability designed in connection with the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram of the system diagram of FIG. 1 illustrating the ability to transmit a response between the base site apparatus and each system pager.

3 is a system phaser block diagram showing automatic and manual response transmission capabilities and the absence affecting them.

4 is a flowchart showing a process of influencing the response transmission from the pager side for text and voice pages.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the modification of the process of FIG. 4 for a very active system where a special question signal is required for response transmission.

6 is a flow chart showing the process affecting the recognition response from the system or base station for tone and voice calling.

7 is a modification flow diagram for the process steps of FIG. 6 to provide a specific query signal for producing and sending an expected manual response.

Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

10-paging system 20-antenna switch

21, 23-Speaker 24-Screen

25-Pager Control 26-Push Button

27-Manual Response Indicator 28-Memory

52-Transmitter 58-Recognition Decoder Module

64-Latch 100-Pager

101-paging transmitter

In order to achieve this object, the paging system (10) of the present invention is a paging system (10) having a central base station and a plurality of remote pagers, comprising: display means installed on the pager (100);

Means for receiving a paging signal by the pager 100, activating the display means for a predetermined interval, and automatically responding to the signal for indicating an address received and manually responding for the predetermined interval. The positive response is sent back to the base station according to an indication indicating that the message has been received and so indicated to the original caller, and also marked to the original caller, and if no manual response is made during the predetermined interval, a negative response is returned to the base station. Consisting of a specific paging call status indicator comprising means for manually responding or not responding during the predetermined interval that is sent and also displayed to the original caller, the paging system 10 having a central base station and a plurality of remote pages. In

Providing a display means to the pager 100 and receiving a paging signal by the pager 100, activating the display means for a predetermined interval to send an automatic response back to the signal to display the received address and the predetermined An associated message that sends a positive response to the base station indicating that the message was received correctly during the interval and also notifies the original caller, or sends a negative response back to the base station for not responding manually during the specified interval and forwards to the original caller as well. And indicating a specific paging call status by allowing a remote pager user to indicate a specific paging call status, including receiving and manually responding or not responding manually during the predetermined interval.

It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a closed loop backward aware paging arrangement and a method which compensates for the above-mentioned drawbacks.

A more particular object of the present invention is to provide a paging system of a type in which a pager user can be advised on an appropriate response recognition manipulation response process with respect to how and when a pager responds.

It is yet another object of the present invention that positive feedback is used to minimize potential confusion over all special parts and enable a positive response when the pager user receives the intended message and the pager user has a negative response. To provide a paging system.

In practicing the present invention, a paging system is provided in which a plurality of associated paging receivers have an automatic response recognition capability, and furthermore, a paging system equipped with an audiovisual indicating member with an operation button for allowing the pager to perform a reverse recognition response for manual operation. . When the pager receives a call (address), an acknowledgment signal is automatically generated and sent. Furthermore, a time window is formed during the interval between the next message and the time already determined, during which time a manual response confirms receipt of the message and also confirms the response where the call was initiated by the paging system, and the calling system It indicates that during this interval a message was not received and not understood and also not delivered to the originating caller.

This method affects the response and is provided to advise the pager holder whether the manual response is required, and if a manual response is required, to advise when a federation operation must be performed to send a response.

The calling system diagram is shown in FIG. 8, which is designed according to the present invention and is equipped with an automatic recognition signal response capability as well as a manual recognition signal response.

The character terminal 100 processes the paging request, extracts the appropriate address from the internal memory, and broadcasts a paging call that is in turn received by a suitable system pager that alerts the paging receiver holder or user and processes the information. 101). As will be explained later, the pager of the system is in the tone only form designated by (100a), the tone and voice pager designated by (100b), or the alphanumeric display designated by (100c). As already mentioned, the system 10 is a mixture of different types of pagers within a system, or made of one particular type of pager. In any case, however, the respective phasers within the system 10 are equipped to respond with an auto-answer signal as soon as they are paged by the central base station or transmitter 101.

The entire pager 100 is connected to the screen 24, the latch 64, the response recognition encoder controller 25b in the case of the antenna switch 20, the transmission unit 52, the speaker 21, and the alphanumeric display type. Manual operation button 26, manual response indicator 27. Indicator 27 is an LED that appears on the LCD surface or on an external pager housing. In addition, it includes an audio converter that is part of the pager.

In operation, the call is received on the appropriate receiving channel and then processed by the controller 25, for example, a mandatory for a pager received from the memory 28 upon receiving a call from an existing phone for an existing tone, voice page. Generate a tone. These tones are output to transmitter 101 above the output control line and broadcast by antenna 102. The address is received by the page antenna and processed by the pager control 25. As soon as it is decoded and recognized by the address decoder 28a, an automatic reverse-input signal is generated and transmitted by the pager transmitter 21 to the antenna 102 and received and processed by the recognition decoder module 58. In this series of autoresponses, no action is required of the pager user, just the pager is on and able to receive a particular address signal.

As soon as the transmitter 101 receives and processes the automatic recognition response from the antenna 102, the message is sent to the pager 100 in the same manner. During the time and response interval it takes to process the message, the pager holder must press the manual pushbutton 26 to generate a manual recognition response. When received and processed at the base center site, the status indicates whether the page message was received and recognized in a timely manner by the pager holder. Thus, the original caller is advised by an already programmed message stored in terminal 25.

During the above-mentioned response interval, if the terminal 100 does not receive the second, manual response, then the next message sent was not received correctly for some reason and the response was impeded from the transmission to the central paging terminal. Is displayed. In addition, the original caller is advised by a message already programmed and stored in the terminal 100. In the latter case, the caller is asked whether he or she will immediately resend the page message or wait a bit. In some cases, the original caller is advised of a particular state in the paging call and it is received and understood or not.

As already mentioned above, an important problem in paging systems with response capability is that the user is not well aware of any further reverse-recognition responses in addition to the first automatic response, in which case the additional manual response is affected. It must be when you receive.

In a paging system equipped with this facility, the pager holder is guided through the necessary process of when and if there is a manual response. This can be seen in more detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 5, which shows the pager side of the reverse-recognized signal response affected by the system 10.

Processing and routine procedures begin at step 30 and then follow step 31 to receive pager addresses by pager 100. As soon as it is processed by the phaser 100 and recognized, an automatic reverse recognition response is generated via the receiver encoder controller module 25b at step 32. The controller unit affects the alarm and audio path from step 33 to the pager speaker 23 and turns on the manual response indicator 27.

This indicates that the pager holder must take manual recognition action. If the pager holder activates push button 26 to initiate a manual reverse-recognition response at step 34, pager 100 will affect sending a positive form of manual response at step 35.

As already described above, a response is received while the message is received and processed by the pager 100. If the pager holder operates push button 26 to produce the intended response during this interval, the manual response indicator is turned off by the pager at step 35 to terminate the routine at step 39.

However, if the pager 100 fails to detect the operation of the pushbutton 26, it must wait until the response interval expires in step 37. As a result, the routine ends at step 39 if the manual response indicator is turned off and a negative manual response is sent at step 38.

From the base or center side, the routine starts at step 40 and as a result a specific pager address is sent to step 41. The channel is monitored at step 42 while it is expected that the automated reverse-recognition signal is received at step 43 at the phased pager 100. If the automatic recognition signal is not received by the terminal 100 within the time set time at step 44, the pager does not operate and the routine ends at step 46 as shown in step 45, and step 45 The terminal 100 determines to inform the caller by a pre-programmed message stored in the designated place. However, if an automatic reverse recognition response is received at step 48, the message may be sent at step 47. The channel is monitored for a predetermined time at step 48. If the passive reverse-recognition response is not detected during the set of time periods in step 45, the terminal 12 determines to be "no response", (no positive, no negative response) and returns to step 100 the original caller. Indicate that the routine has ended at step 114, as shown in FIG. As indicated, the program sends the page again if no response is received at step 51.

Optionally, if a second (manual) recognition response is received by the terminal 100 in step 49, the terminal furthermore determines whether the response is an affirmative response shown in step 35 of FIG. Determine if the negative response shown in. If the passive reverse recognition response is positive, then the terminal 100 informs the original caller that the positive message has been received at step 54 by means of a preprogrammed and stored message. If the manual reverse-aware response is negative, the original caller will know that a negative message has been received at step 55. In both cases the routine ends at step 56.

There is another side to think about this type of paging system. This is a matter of determining the response interval to manually send back a response. As mentioned above, it starts with sending and receiving messages for a period already defined by the called pager. However, for very busy systems, setting this interval may be rather low.

As an alternative to this prescheduling, the paging system, or more precisely, the controller 25 of the terminal 100, affects the call pager's specific question about manual back-in response at a selected but not predetermined time. Can be crazy This is shown in FIG. 8, where in step 47 of FIG. 5, after receiving an automatic reverse-recognition response and sending a voice message, the terminal 100 phases to other pages of the system as specified in step 60. Return to At an appropriate but variously selected time point, the terminal 100 queries the particular system pager for the required manual reverse-recognition response specified in step 61. It will be appreciated that the manual response interval is set separately from the interrogation signal sent by the terminal 100. Pushbutton 26 operates for a defined interval while pager 100 merely notes that operation. The actual passive reverse recognition response is not sent by the pager until the question signal is received. When such a query signal is transmitted, it is preceded by the terminal 100. This question signal consists of the address of the pager and additional information that directs the pager to alert and activate the manual response indicator 27 in the pager 100. The terminal 100 monitors the channel for a predetermined time in the same manner as step 48 of FIG. 5 and the routine continues in the same manner as described above.

The pager address is received on the pager side and automatic response starts at steps 31 and 32 as described above in FIG. However, in step 33, the pager sounds and routes an audio alarm to the pager speaker and at the same time the manual indicator is activated. After a while, in step 80a of FIG. 6, the system query signal is transmitted and received by the phaser 100. As in step 34 of FIG. 4, the phaser 100 determines whether the pager holder has activated the push button 26. If enabled, a positive response is sent to step 35, if not enabled, a negative response is sent to step 38, with the result that the routine ends at step 39.

With the configuration of the present invention as described above, the paging system of the present invention can compensate for the closed-loop backward-aware paging arrangement and the above-described drawbacks, and appropriate response recognition operation regarding how and when the pager user responds by the indicator. You can be advised about the response process, and positive feedback is used to minimize potential confusion over all special areas, and to respond positively if the pager user receives the intended message and the pager user responds negatively. This is a very useful invention.

Claims (10)

12. A paging system having a central base station and a plurality of remote pages, wherein the display means is provided on the pager. Means for receiving a paging signal by the pager, activating the display means for a predetermined interval, and returning an automatic response to the signal to display the received address. Responding manually during the predetermined interval causes the positive response to be resent to the base station according to an indication that the message has been received and so marked to the original caller, marked to the original caller, and not manually responded during the predetermined interval. Otherwise, means for manually responding or not responding during the predetermined interval for which a negative response is returned to the base station and also indicated to the original caller. 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said means for manually responding during said predetermined interval comprises a manually operated pushbutton installed over a pager. 2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the predetermined interval of manually responding includes time during receiving the association message and thereafter for a predetermined time. 2. The paging of claim 1, wherein the indicating means is activated upon receipt of the message and is operated during the predetermined interval to inform the pager holder of the time that a response should be received, as well as when a manual reverse-recognition response is expected. The paging call status indicator of the system. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the display means is visual, audio, or audiovisual. 6. The paging call state display device of claim 5, wherein the visual display means is an LCD segment or an LED device. 6. The paging call state display device of claim 5, wherein the audio display means is a transducer device. 6. The paging call status indication device of a paging system of claim 5, wherein the paging system displays the caller by means of a programmed message stored in the central base station. The method of claim 1, wherein the base station fails to receive a positive or negative response for a predetermined interval when an associated message is not received properly or a failure occurs that prevents the pager from being transmitted to the base station. The paging call status indicator on the paging system. A paging system having a central base station and a plurality of remote pagers, the means for providing an indication to the pager. Receive a paging signal by a pager, and activate the display means for a predetermined interval to send an automatic response back to display the received address; Send a positive response to the base station indicating that the message was received correctly and notifying the original caller during the predetermined interval, or returning a negative response back to the base station, not responding manually during the specified interval, and forwarding to the original caller as well. Receiving a related message to manually answer or fail to respond during the predetermined interval so that the remote pager user indicates a particular paging call status.