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US 2015/0021398 A1Published application
System and method for implementing network communication for a bar code scanner
AssigneeOpticon, Inc.
InventorsMichael J. Waters, Scott McGhee, Jiang Qin, Kenneth Y. Ogami
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Abstract
A scanning system and method are disclosed which may include a bar code scanner module incorporated within a housing; and a wireless network transceiver coupled to the bar code scanner module and operable to communicate with at least one other communication device, the bar code scanner and the transceiver forming a scanning device. The transceiver may communicate employing Zigbee network protocol.
Claims17
A scanning system comprising:
- a bar code scanner module incorporated within a housing;
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- a Zigbee-enabled wireless network transceiver, in communication with the bar code scanner module, and operable to communicate with at least one other communication device, the bar code scanner and the transceiver forming a scanning device;
- wherein said scanning device is configured to remotely activate another one of said scanning device over a communication network in response to an event detected by said scanning device.
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A method, comprising:
- providing a bar code scanner module and a Zigbee-enabled wireless transceiver coupled thereto, thereby forming a scanning device;
- enabling communication between the scanning device and a Zigbee-enabled communication network;
- providing a plurality of scanning devices in the Zigbee-enabled communication network;
- and
- enabling a first of said scanning devices to remotely activate a second of said scanning devices over said network in response to an event detected by said first scanning device.
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A scanning system comprising:
- a computer;
- a plurality of bar code scanner modules each incorporated within a housing;
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- a plurality of Zigbee-enabled wireless network transceivers with each associated with and in communication with one of the bar code scanner modules to form a scanning device, each scanning device configured with a full Zigbee network stack that includes star, tree and point-to-point networks and configured to be in communication with at least one other scanning device and the computer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.