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US 2004/0164156 A1Published application
Bar-code reader
AssigneesFujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
InventorsMitsuo Watanabe, Isao Iwaguchi, Hideo Miyazawa, Kozo Yamazaki, Masanori Ohkawa, Mitsuharu Ishii
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Abstract
Management information, which is information about hardware in or software installed in the bar-code reader, is stored in a storage unit is the bar-code reader. The management information may be acquired from an external unit or read from a bar code.
Claims20
A bar-code reader comprising:
- a reading unit that reads a bar code optically to thereby acquire a scan data;
- a decoding unit that processes the scan data to thereby decode contents of the bar code;
- a storing unit that stores the contents of the bar code if the contents of the bar code is management information that is information about any one of hardware of and software installed in the bar-code reader.
A bar-code reader comprising:
- a communicating unit that receives management information from an external unit, the management information being information about any one of hardware of and software installed in the bar-code reader;
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- a storing unit that stores the management information received by the communicating unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.