Using a user's application to configure user scanner
AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.
InventorsTimothy Meier, Willis Field
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Abstract
A method of operating an indicia reader adapted to read information bearing indicia (IBI) is accomplished by putting the indicia reader in a set up mode to enable the indicia reader to read N types of user usage IBIs; reading at least one user usage IBI with the indicia reader that is one of the N types of IBI the indicia reader is enabled to read; configuring the indicia reader in accordance with the at least one IBI read while the indicia reader is in the set up mode; putting the indicia reader into a use mode and reading user usage IBIs of the type read while the indicia was in the set up mode.
Claims20
A method of operating an indicia reader, the method comprising:
- in a set up mode to enabling the indicia reader to read N types of user usage IBIs;
- reading at least one user usage IBI with the indicia reader that is one of the N types of IBI the indicia reader is enabled to read, wherein the at least one user usage IBI is absent a codeword or characteristic that identifies the at least one user usage IBI as an IBI to be used for configuration;
- configuring the indicia reader in accordance with the at least one user usage IBI read while the indicia reader is in the set up mode;
- in a use mode, reading user usage IBIs of the type read while the indicia reader was in the set up mode.
An indicia reader comprising:
- a scanning engine for scanning and decoding data encoded in one of a plurality of types of information bearing indicia (IBI), including user usage IBIs and menuing IBIs;
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- a software program which configures settings related to operation of the indicia reader through the scanning and reading of at least one user usage IBI which is not a menuing IBI, wherein the at least one user usage IBI is absent a codeword or characteristic that identifies the at least one user usage IBI as an IBI to be used for configuration.
A method, comprising:
- enabling an indicia reader to read N types of user usage information bearing indicia (IBI) in a set up mode;
- reading a user usage IBI with the indicia reader that is one of the N types of IBI the indicia reader is enabled to read, wherein the user usage IBI is absent a codeword or characteristic that identifies the user usage IBI as an IBI to be used for configuration;
- configuring the indicia reader in accordance with the user usage IBI read while the indicia reader is in the set up mode;
- in a use mode, reading user usage IBIs of the type read while the indicia reader was in the set up mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.