HANDHELD FIELD MAINTENANCE TOOL WITH IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY
First Claim
1. A method of displaying information relative to an intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool on a remote device;
- providing an operating system having an I/O module, wherein the handheld field maintenance tool has a local display that is driven, at least in part, by the I/O module;
providing wireless communication information from the intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool to the remote device, the wireless communication information being indicative, at least, of display information; and
receiving the wireless communication information at the remote device and rendering a display by the remote device based on the wireless communication information.
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Abstract
A handheld field maintenance tool with improved functionality is provided. The handheld field maintenance tool includes a keypad, a display, a short-range wireless transceiver and a processor. The processor is coupled to the keypad, the display and the short-range wireless transceiver. The processor is also coupled to memory having a plurality of instructions stored therein, which instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform at least one of remote wireless display; remote wireless keypress injection; and wireless printing.
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15 Claims
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1. A method of displaying information relative to an intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool on a remote device;
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providing an operating system having an I/O module, wherein the handheld field maintenance tool has a local display that is driven, at least in part, by the I/O module; providing wireless communication information from the intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool to the remote device, the wireless communication information being indicative, at least, of display information; and receiving the wireless communication information at the remote device and rendering a display by the remote device based on the wireless communication information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of interacting with an intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool coupled to a field device;
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providing an operating system having an I/O module, wherein the handheld field maintenance tool has a local user input that is driven, at least in part, by the I/O module; providing wireless communication information from a computing device to the intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool; and receiving the wireless communication information at the intrinsically-safe handheld field maintenance tool and injecting keystrokes to the I/O module based on the wireless communication information. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A method of printing field device configuration information from an intrinsically safe handheld field maintenance tool, the method comprising:
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establishing wireless communication with a wireless-enabled printing device; formatting the field device configuration information for output to the printing device; wirelessly transmitting the formatted field device configuration information to the printing device; and printing the formatted field device configuration information from the printing device - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A handheld field maintenance tool comprising:
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a keypad; a display; a short-range wireless transceiver; and a processor coupled to the keypad, the display and the short-range wireless transceiver, the processor being coupled to memory having a plurality of instructions stored therein, which instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform at least one of remote wireless display;
remote wireless keypress injection; and
wireless printing. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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