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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1992
Michael R Marrs, Parkland, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A radio receiver (50) for establishing a message debiting system has a receiver (54) for receiving message information and a memory (104) for storing the received message information to be presented to a user of the radio receiver (50). The radio receiver (50) includes a debit meter (72) which indicates a number of available credit units for enabling the presentation of the stored message information. The stored message information is processed a decoder/controller (56) and a number of debit units is calculated from a parameter of the stored message information. The number of debit units of the stored message is debited from the indicated number of credit units of the debit meter to enable the presentation of the stored message information. The stored message is disabled from being presented to the user when the number of available credit units of the debit meter (72) is depleted.