| 摘要 |
<p>A system and program for concurrently accepting a plurality of page requests or messages, in "stand-alone" and over a network using a plurality of protocols, and providing those requests to one or a plurality of modems which can concurrently transmit page requests to several paging service carriers. The program may run on a multi-tasking operating system, such as the IBM OS/2, that supports multiple communications protocols and is preferably written in the C or C + + language and uses a combination of the IBM REXX program, incorporated in the OS/2 operating system, and C (IBM C2) and extensions to C. The system comprises an input component capable of concurrently accepting a plurality of page requests or messages; a queueing component or program for placing the plurality of page requests accepted by the input component in a queue; a program for concurrently selecting page requests from the queue for forwarding; and one or more modems for receiving page requests selected from the queue and forwarding the requests to one or more paging service carriers. The modems may forward different page requests or messages, from among the plurality of page messages received, to different paging services and the page messages accepted may involve different protocols and contain address information which is used in addressing the messages for forwarding to the paging service carriers. More than one page request may be sent during a telephone call and means may be provided for automatically resending a page message in response to an error message from a paging service. The selecting process may use automatic prioritizing of the selecting of page messages from the queue and recording of the page messages selected. <IMAGE></p> |
