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Mobile terminal with integrated host application software
Assignee: Symbol Technologies LLC
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Filing: 2000-05-15
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Granted: 2004-03-30
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Expires: 2020-05-15
Abstract
Abstract A method of integrating host application software with data collection devices (e.g., bar code scanners) located on remote, wireless terminals. A data collection object executes on the host computer, using a predetermined interface between the host application software and the data collection object. That interface, and the communications between the host application software and the data collection object, are configured so that to the host application software the data collection device appears to be local hardware on the host computer. The data collection object creates and executes threads of execution for controlling operation of the data collection device, with the threads communicating with the remote terminals via a host computer transport layer, the wireless link, and a remote computer transport layer at the remote terminals. A data collection device driver on the remote terminal receives communications from the data collection object, and returns information to the data collection object, over the remote computer transport layer, wireless link, and host computer transport layer.
Inventors
- 👤 John Klein
- 👤 Allan Herrod
Bibliographic Details
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2026-11-04 07:18
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06F; G06F1/00; G06F1/16; G06F1/1613; G06F1/1615; G06F1/1616; G06F1/1626; G06F1/1632; G06F1/1633; G06F1/1656; G06F1/1684; G06F1/1696; G06F1/18; G06F1/181; G06F16/00; G06F16/40; G06F16/43; G06F16/432; G06F16/434; G06F16/90; G06F16/95; G06F16/955; G06F16/9554; G06F3/00; G06F3/01; G06F3/03; G06F3/033; G06F3/0354; G06F3/03545; G06K; G06K17/00; G06K17/0022; G06K7/00; G06K7/10; G06K7/10544; G06K7/10821; G06K7/10881; H; H04; H04L; H04L51/00; H04L51/21; H04L51/216; H04L51/222; H04L61/00; H04W; H04W88/00; H04W88/02; H04W88/06; H04W4/00; H04W74/00; H04W76/00; H04W76/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 39
Claim 1
Independent Claim
95 words
A wireless user-held network terminal for accessing, displaying, and entering data on a computer network, the terminal comprising: a processor and associated memory; a visual display; a keypad; a radio transmitter and receiver configured to establish wireless communication between the terminal and the computer network; communications engine software for controlling communication between the wireless terminal and the computer network; and parsing software for providing a user interface on the display by parsing script received from the network, whereby a multiplicity of different user interfaces may be provided without installing new software on the wireless terminal.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
95 words
A wireless user-held network terminal for accessing, displaying, and entering data on a computer network, the terminal comprising: a processor and associated memory; a visual display; a keypad; a radio transmitter and receiver configured to establish wireless communication between the terminal and the computer network; communications engine software for controlling communication between the wireless terminal and the computer network; and parsing software for providing a user interface on the display by parsing script received from the network, whereby a multiplicity of different user interfaces may be provided without installing new software on the wireless terminal.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
13 words
The terminal of claim 1 wherein the terminal is configured to be hand-held.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
13 words
The terminal of claim 1 wherein the terminal comprises a personal digital assistant.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
12 words
The terminal of claim 1 wherein the computer network is the Internet.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
11 words
The terminal of claim 1 wherein the script comprises markup language.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
10 words
The terminal of claim 5 wherein the script comprises HTML.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
24 words
The terminal of claim 1 further comprising a bar code scanner and bar code acquisition engine software for scanning and decoding bar code labels.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
40 words
The terminal of claim 7 wherein the terminal is configured to obtain a script from a bar code label, wherein the user interface on the display of the terminal is prescribed by a bar code label scanned using the terminal.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
17 words
The terminal of claim 8 wherein the bar code label provides the network address of the script.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
13 words
The terminal of claim 8 wherein the bar code label provides the script.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
15 words
The terminal of claim 1 further comprising a browser which comprises the parsing engine software.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless communication is across cellular telephone channels.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
67 words
A wireless user-held network terminal for accessing markup language files on the Internet, the terminal comprising: a processor and associated memory; a visual display; a keypad; a radio transmitter and receiver configured to establish wireless communication between the terminal and the computer network; communications engine software for controlling communication between the wireless terminal and the Internet; and browsing software for accessing and parsing the markup language files.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
67 words
A wireless user-held network terminal for accessing markup language files on the Internet, the terminal comprising: a processor and associated memory; a visual display; a keypad; a radio transmitter and receiver configured to establish wireless communication between the terminal and the computer network; communications engine software for controlling communication between the wireless terminal and the Internet; and browsing software for accessing and parsing the markup language files.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
11 words
The terminal of claim 13 wherein the markup language is HTML.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
19 words
The terminal of claim 7 wherein the bar code scanner is configured to read high density bar code labels.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
122 words
A wireless user-held bar code scanning terminal for scanning bar code labels and accessing files on a computer network, the terminal comprising: a processor and associated memory; a visual display; a keypad; a radio transmitter and receiver configured to establish wireless communication between the terminal and the computer network; communications engine software for controlling communication between the wireless terminal and the computer network; parsing software for providing a user interface on the display by parsing script received from the network, whereby a multiplicity of different user interfaces may be provided without installing new software on the wireless terminal; a bar code scanner; and a bar code acquisition engine software for scanning and decoding bar code labels scanned by the bar code scanner.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
122 words
A wireless user-held bar code scanning terminal for scanning bar code labels and accessing files on a computer network, the terminal comprising: a processor and associated memory; a visual display; a keypad; a radio transmitter and receiver configured to establish wireless communication between the terminal and the computer network; communications engine software for controlling communication between the wireless terminal and the computer network; parsing software for providing a user interface on the display by parsing script received from the network, whereby a multiplicity of different user interfaces may be provided without installing new software on the wireless terminal; a bar code scanner; and a bar code acquisition engine software for scanning and decoding bar code labels scanned by the bar code scanner.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
40 words
The terminal of claim 16 wherein the terminal is configured to obtain a script from a bar code label, wherein the user interface on the display of the terminal is prescribed by a bar code label scanned using the terminal.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
17 words
The terminal of claim 17 wherein the bar code label provides the network address of the script.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
13 words
The terminal of claim 17 wherein the bar code label provides the script.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
13 words
The terminal of claim 16 wherein the terminal is configured to be hand-held.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
13 words
The terminal of claim 16 wherein the terminal comprises a personal digital assistant.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
12 words
The terminal of claim 16 wherein the computer network is the Internet.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
11 words
The terminal of claim 16 wherein the script comprises markup language.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
10 words
The terminal of claim 23 wherein the script comprises HTML.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
15 words
The terminal of claim 16 further comprising a browser which comprises the parsing engine software.
Claim 29
Independent Claim
97 words
A method of remotely browsing, on a user-held wireless computer device, and electronic document stored as a file having a file address on a computer network, the method comprising the steps of: using a bar code scanner incorporated into the device to scan a bar code label containing information identifying the file address: decoding the file address from the result of the scan; accessing the network file by sending the file address over a wireless communication path connecting the device to the computer network; and displaying the accessed file on a visual display incorporated into the device.
Claim 30
Independent Claim
97 words
A method of remotely browsing, on a user-held wireless computer device, and electronic document stored as a file having a file address on a computer network, the method comprising the steps of: using a bar code scanner incorporated into the device to scan a bar code label containing information identifying the file address: decoding the file address from the result of the scan; accessing the network file by sending the file address over a wireless communication path connecting the device to the computer network; and displaying the accessed file on a visual display incorporated into the device.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 26 further comprising entering information at the wireless computer device using a keypad incorporated into the device.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
36 words
The method of claim 26 wherein the filed accessed from the computer network contains script, and the method further comprises running parsing software at the computer device to parse the script received from the computer network.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
15 words
The method of claim 26 wherein the computer device is configured to be hand held.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 26 wherein the computer device comprises a personal digital assistant.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 26 wherein the computer network is the Internet.
Claim 36
Dependent Claim
14 words
The method of claim 26 wherein the wireless communication is across cellular telephone channels.
Claim 37
Dependent Claim
12 words
The method of claim 28 wherein the script comprises a markup language.
Claim 38
Dependent Claim
10 words
The method of claim 33 wherein the script comprises HTML.
Claim 39
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of claim 28 further comprising running browser software on the computer device, wherein the browser software comprises the parsing software.
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