What is claimed is:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a unit detachably mountable on a main assembly, said unit having at least an image bearing member and a memory;
image writing means for writing an image on said image bearing member in accordance with an image information; and
communication means for communicating with said memory,
wherein said communication means is arranged under said image writing means; and
said image writing means has a shielding function of shielding radiant noise emitted from said communication means.
2. The image forming apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein a case of said image writing means has the shielding function.
3. The image forming apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein said case is at least partly made of a sheet metal.
4. The image forming apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said apparatus further comprises a guide part arranged under said communication means for guiding a move of a recording material, and said guide part has the shielding function.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A distributed home location register (HLR) comprising:
a personal home location register (HLR) located in a processor of a user, but not located with a telecommunication services provider;
an interface to the personal home location register for a user to select services;
a link to an operations support system of the telecommunication services provider for obtaining services;
a network home location register (HLR) coupled to the operations support system of the telecommunications service provider
a plurality of users, each user of the plurality of users having an individual HLR within the network HLR indicating said services which are available to each user, wherein the individual HLR for a particular user includes a pointer to the personal HLR.
2. An arrangement for distributing a home location register (HLR) from a telecommunications service provider, said arrangement comprising:
processor means including the home location register, said processor means operating independent of the telecommunication service provider and located with a particular subscriber, and said processor means coupled to said telecommunications service provider for communication; and
database means for storing subscriber information for a plurality of subscribers, said database means coupled to said telecommunication service provider, said telecommunication service provider operating in response to a request from said processor means to obtain said subscriber information for said Particular subscriber, wherein said database means includes a database for storing roaming information, and wherein said particular subscriber inputs change to the HLR to modify the roaming information within the distributed HLR.
3. An arrangement for a distributed home location register (HLR) comprising:
a personal home location register (HLR) located within a processor means of a particular user; and
a telecommunications service provider including a network home location register (HLR), said telecommunications service provider coupled to said processor means, said network HLR pointing to said personal HLR, wherein the telecommunications service provider includes a traditional network HLR for other users wherein the particular user is charged a first rate for the personal HLR, and wherein the other users are charged a second rate for the traditional network HLR.