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Wireless bar code symbol driven portable data terminal (PDT) system for running application programs on an operating system emulated on a virtual machine

  • US 7,934,659 B2
  • Filed: 10/04/2006
  • Issued: 05/03/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A wireless portable data terminal (PDT) system for use and communication with a base station by way of an electromagnetic-based radio-frequency (RF) 2-way digital data communication link, said wireless PDT system comprising:

  • a hand-supportable housing;

    a rechargeable battery supported within said hand-supportable housing;

    a data capture engine mounted within said hand-supportable housing, for optically capturing data, about objects optically encoded in information structures such as bar code symbols;

    a LCD panel integrated with said hand-supportable housing;

    a micro-computing platform mounted within said hand-supportable housing, and capable of (i) running/executing application programs on a first kind of operating system (OS1) that is emulated on a virtual machine that is supported on a second kind of operating system (OS2) so that the application programs can be developed on developer computers-running the first kind of operating system OS1, and (ii) supporting a graphical user interface (GUI) on said LCD panel for graphically displaying and manipulating documents; and

    a user control console having a manual data-entry structure for manually entering data into said documents.

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