US 4,731,525 AGranted

Modular microprocessor-based system for printing and reading school attendance recordkeeping codes on forms

AssigneeData Information Management Systems, Inc.

InventorJohn R. Hice

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Abstract

A modular microprocessor-based code printing and reading system, adapted to print a personal coded identifier and other codes relating to categories of school-attendance recordkeeping on a form, and to read the codes from the form to generate data for processing thereof. The system is particularly adapted for use in the school-attendance recordkeeping process, with the codes including a bar code, representing an identifier assigned to the person so identified. The system includes a laser printer, micropocessor-based, operable in response to a laser control program, for printing the codes associated with the particular person at the appropriate location on the form. The system further includes a portable compact reader, microprocessor-based, which includes a wand adapted to sense the bar code on the form. The reader is operable in response to control by the operator, and to a reader control program, for reading the bar code, to generate data relating to the person identified thereby for processing thereof.

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Dependent claims

A modular microprocessor-based apparatus adapted to generate and print pring a unique identifier code assigned to each person on a school attendance roster, on a sheet of paper comprising a form adapted for use in a school-attendance recordkeeping proces, which code is adapted to enable the person's file to be addressible directly without correlation to a control file, and which apparatus is further adapted to enable the personal identifier code to be read from the sheet of paper, to generate data associated with each such person relating to the school-attendance recordkeeping process, for processing of such data for use in the school-attendance recordkeeping process, comprising:

(a) microprocessor-based means for generating and printing the directly-addressible personal identifier code on the sheet of school-attendance recordkeeping process form paper, including means for directing a laser beam therein, adapted to be operable responsive to control by a laser control program for printing the directly-addressible personal identifier code on the school-attendance recordkeeping process form;
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(b) microprocessor-based portable compact means for reading the directly-addressible personal-identifier code from the school-attendance recordkeeping process form, adapted to be operable responsive to control by the operator, and control by a reading control program, to generate data assocated with each such person relating to the school-attendance recordkeeping process, for processing thereof for use in the school-attendance recordkeeping process.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.