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US 2010/0306755 A1Published application
Indicia reader with programmable indicators of software upgrades
AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.
InventorTimothy R. Fitch
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Abstract
An indicia reader with a user perceptible indicator of a software upgrade having an imaging reader assembly, an electronics assembly, a housing, wherein one of the electronics assembly and the housing produces a user perceptible indicator in response to a software upgrade.
Claims18
An indicia reader with a user perceptible indicator of a software upgrade comprising:
- a) an imaging reader assembly;
- b) an electronics assembly;
- c) a housing;
- wherein one of the electronics assembly and the housing produces a user perceptible indicator in response to a software upgrade.
1 more element
An indicia reading device comprising:
- a minimal set of useful features;
- one or more dormant capabilities and one or more dormant perceptible signals representative of the one or more dormant capabilities;
- means for receiving a software upgrade that activates one or more of the dormant capabilities;
- and
- means responsive to the receipt of said software upgrade to activate one or more of the dormant perceptible signals to indicate the indicia reading device has been upgraded.
2 more elements
A process for providing a user perceptible indication of a software change affecting the capabilities of an indicia reader comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a first user perception of the indicia reader prior to the software change;
- b) providing a second user perception of the indicia reader after the software change;
- c) wherein the difference between the second user perception and the first user perception in response only from the software change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.