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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Thomas LaGrotta, Livingston, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ; G08B 5/22 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 7/20 ; G08B 5/22 ;
Abstract
A paging system in which a subscriber's telephone number is used as the PIN number to identify the subscriber's pager. When a caller places a call to the paging system, the caller enters the telephone number of the subscriber when prompted for a PIN. The paging system performs a database lookup to determine the address of the pager associated with the entered PIN. Alternatively, the entered PIN itself could be used as the address of the pager. Upon identification of the address of the pager, the paging system transmits a message including the address of the pager via radio transmission.