SELECTABLE PAGE ALERT CONTROLLER

摘要

A page alert controller (10) that can selectively disable the alert event associated with received messages from any of the sources or groupings of sources the message receiver/pager is configured to receive data from. The selective page alert controller (10) includes a source identifier (12) which indexes a particular memory address in an alert condition register (12) corresponding to the source of the received message. Depending on the contents of the memory address indexed, the alert condition register (12) determines whether or not the message receiver/pager will alert an operator of the received message. The contents of the alert condition register (12) are programmable by the message receiver operator such that the alert associated with each of the sources can be enabled or disabled through an operator interface (14) on the message receiver.