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Method and apparatus for accessing a remote location with an optical reader having a programmable memory system

  • US 20050108404A1
  • Filed: 11/23/2004
  • Published: 05/19/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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  • A method of accessing a remote location on a network using an optical reader, comprising the steps of;

    transmitting a code from an optical reader to a first computer disposed on the network wherein the optical reader is a self-contained unit;

    the optical reader including an optical scanning system, a programmable memory system and an output circuit for interfacing to the first computer, and being user-switchable between a scan mode, a record mode and a playback mode;

    the code being indicative, when the optical reader is in the scan mode, of information extracted from an encoded indicia just scanned by the optical scanning system;

    the code being indicative, when the optical reader is in the playback mode, of information retrieved from a user-selectable memory in the programmable memory system, which information was previously stored in the user-selectable memory after being extracted from an encoded indicia scanned by the optical scanning system when the optical reader was in the record mode which playback of information occurs in time after the recording of the played back information and in response to a user initiating the playback mode;

    determining from the received code routing information to the remote location; and

    accessing the remote location on the network in accordance with the routing information determined from the step of determining.

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