Method of developing an application program for running on a wireless portable data terminal (PDT)

• US 7,121,468 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2004
• Issued: 10/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Metrologic Instruments Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Metrologic Instruments Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Xiaoxun, Knowles, C. Harry, Au, Ka Man, Liu, Liang, Schmidt, Mark, Zhang, Wuqing, Russell, Garrett K., Xu, Congwei, Ji, Kai
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US10/758,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20040206825A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 23546201-46245, 235/472.01, 235/472.02, 235/472.03, 235/454, 235/455, 235/375
• US Class Current: 235/462.45
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisious for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10158 methods and means used by the interrogation device for reliably powering the wireless record carriers using an electromagnetic interrogation field
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10881 constructional details of hand-held scanners

Abstract

A method of developing an application program for running on a wireless portable data terminal (PDT), comprising the steps of (a) during the development of an application program for running on a wireless PDT supported by a first operating system, generating user input and documents using development programs running on a developer computer system supported by a second operating system; (b) developing the application program on the developer computer system into a final application program expressed in the form of binary executable code designed for execution on the first operating system loaded onto the wireless PDT; (c) downloading the binary executable code of the final application program onto the wireless PDT; and (d) running the final application program in binary executable code upon the first operating system loaded onto the wireless PDT.

Claims

1. A method of developing an application program for running on a wireless portable data terminal (PDT), comprising the steps of:

(a) during the development of an application program for running on a wireless PDT supported by a first operating system, generating user input and documents using development programs running on a developer computer system supported by a second operating system;

(b) developing said application program on said developer computer system into a final application program expressed in the form of binary executable code designed for execution on said first operating system loaded onto said wireless PDT;

(c) downloading the binary executable code of said final application program onto said wireless PDT; and

(d) running said final application program in binary executable code upon said first operating system loaded onto said wireless PDT.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said PDT includes a color liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, and said development programs include an application generation program for enabling the rapid design and implementation of a wireless PDT-supported information system having (i) a Presentation Layer characterized by rich graphical user interface (GUI) screens displayed on the PDT'"'"'s color LCD panel, (ii) a Data Layer characterized by one or more SQL databases supported within said PDT, or within Web-enabled RDBMS servers connected to IP-based information networks such as the Internet, and (iii) a Control Layer characterized by easily implemented business logic using visual WYSIWYG, event-driven programming techniques.