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Automated help instructions for automatically or adaptively configuring a hand-held device, such as a bar code reader or hand-held personal computer

  • US 6,119,941 A
  • Filed: 05/04/1998
  • Issued: 09/19/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for guiding a device operator through the process of enabling a bar code symbology on a hand-held device having a bar code reader, the hand-held device having a plurality of bar code symbologies, the method comprising:

  • reading a bar code label;

    automatically identifying a bar code symbology in which the bar code label has been expressed by,for each of the plurality of bar code symbologies that have an enabled status, determining if the bar code label has been expressed in that bar code symbology; and

    for each of at least one bar code symbology that has a non-enabled status, determining if the bar code label has been expressed in that bar code symbology; and

    if the identified bar code symbology has a non-enabled status, thenproviding the device operator a query asking whether the identified bar code symbology should have an enabled status in the hand-held device; and

    receiving a reply to the query from the device operator.

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