Hand-held portable WWW access terminal with visual display panel and GUI-based WWW browser program integrated with bar code symbol reader in a hand-supportable housing
July 11, 2017. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesHome merchandise ordering telecommunications terminal Program recording scheduling apparatus using an optical reader Packet data communication network Packet data communication system Bar code use in information, transactional and other system and service applications System for reading, storing and using bar-encoded data from a coded business card or other printed material Automatic document handling system Attribute portion based document retrieval system with system query language interface System and method for embedding machine coded destination information into a postal mark Multimedia service access by reading marks on an object Patent #: 5640193 InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 891599 filed on 07/11/1997US Classes:235/472.01, Hand-held (e.g., portable)235/462.01Bar codeExaminersPrimary: Hajec, Donald T.Assistant: Le, Thien M. Attorney, Agent or FirmForeign Patent References
International ClassG06K 7/1/0AbstractA portable hand-held WWW access terminal for accessing HTML-encoded documents located on the WWW. The terminal includes a bar code symbol reader in a hand-supportable housing for reading URL-encoded symbols specifying the location of HTML-encoded documents stored in information servers connected to the Internet and supporting the TCP/IP standard. A computing platform is provided for supporting a GUI-based WWW browser program integrated with the bar code symbol reader in the hand-supportable housing. A telecommunication modem is operably connected to the computing platform in order to establish a two-way telecommunication link between the GUI-based WWW browser and an Internet service provider (ISP) connected to the Internet. In response to reading a URL-encoded bar code symbol, the WWW browser program automatically accesses a corresponding HTML-encoded document on the Internet, for display on a visual display panel integrated with hand-supportable housing. A keypad is also integrated with the hand-supportable housing for manually providing information to the WWW browser program.Other References
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