A PROGRAMMABLE MULTI-ADDRESS PAGER RECEIVER AND METHOD OF CHARACTERIZING SAME

摘要

A pager receiver including a conventional address decoder (16), an alert envelope waveform generator (26), and an alert function mapper (34) is disclosed. The pager is individually and uniquely characterized by programming the alert function mapper to govern the generation of assigned alert annunciation patterns (Fig. 3) by the waveform generator in response to selected decoded pager addresses (AB1, AB2, and AB3) and associated functions (FB1, FB2) thereof, and to inhibit alert generation by the waveform generator in response to non-selected decoded pager addresses and associated functions thereof. In one embodiment, the alert signal generating means is enabled to respond to the alert function mapper only when a pager address is decoded by the decoder.