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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 1995
Filed:
May. 08, 1992
Dean P Vanden Heuvel, Chandler, AZ (US);
Craig C Halley, Mesa, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, US;
Abstract
A selective call receiver (100) for facilitating storage and presentation of a received selective call message. A microcontroller (105) executes a microcode program that controls operation of the selective call receiver (100). Received messages are stored by a memory manager (119) in a memory (115) coupled to the microcontroller (105). The memory manager (115) allocates and deallocates memory blocks, each block corresponding to a memory storage area (504) capable of storing at least a portion of the received message. The memory manager (119) also maintains a dynamic list (505) representing used and unused memory slots, the list being initialized in response to receipt of a database configuration message (301, 302) and updated in response to subsequent received selective call messages. An access manager (120) controls access to received selective call messages by grouping received messages by classification as determined at least in part by a portion of the received selective call message and the database configuration message (301, 302).