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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1999
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A pager ( ) for operating within the communication environment of a cyclical frame based synchronous selective call system. The pager ( ) has a receiver ( ) for receiving selective call signals, a controller ( ), a memory ( ) to store signal parameters, a demodulator ( ) and a decoder ( ). In operation, receiver ( ) processes selected frames within a selective call signal transmitted on a channel. During such operation, controller ( ) determines whether to control receiver ( ) to continue monitoring the channel or to scan for or select another channel to monitor for other selective call signals. A count of missed selected frames of a selective call signal is compared with a threshold count. This threshold count is based upon one of the signal parameters indicative of the selected frames. Controller ( ) also schedules non-selected frames for processing when this signal parameter is greater than a predetermined number.