Appeal No. 1998-2693 Page 2
Application No. 08/569,976
destination address matching an address of the pager. If the
destination address of a message matches a pager's address,
the pager processes and displays the message.
A pager can be shared by plural persons, e.g., a family.
Because every message transmitted to the pager is displayed,
the person currently having the pager receives all messages
sent to family members. That person, however, may not want to
be disrupted by messages for other family members.
The appellant's pager permits a user to select locally
and manually at least one of several stored addresses.
Accordingly, the pager can be set to respond to different
addresses at different times. At any given time, if the
destination address of a transmitted message matches at least
one of the selected addresses, the pager processes and
displays the message. Otherwise, the message in neither
processed nor displayed so that the user is undisturbed.
Claim 1, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
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