Hand Held Products, Inc.

Joseph A Walczyk

Barry H Keys

Joseph Livingston

Robert M Hussey

Michael D Robinson

Timothy A Good

Ka Man Au

Patrick Anthony Giordano

Sean Philip Kearney

Erik Van Horn

John A Furlong

Benjamin Hejl

David Wilz, Sr

Thomas Merritt Haggerty

James Rosetti

Larry Coyle

David M Holzhauer

Chandler Dickinson

Dieter Fauth

Clayton Roberts

James S Ledwith

Dennis Henry Cudzillo

Gregory Pasik

Timothy R Fitch

John Izzo

John C Masters

Lee Kinson

Sr David Wilz

A point of sale system capable of operating in an indicia-reading mode or a verification mode is disclosed. In the indicia-reading mode, the point of sale system configures its illumination, imaging, and processing to read indicia as part of a normal checkout process. If triggered by a user or by an event, the point of sale system may operate in a verification mode. In the verification mode, the point of sale system enables the necessary illumination, imaging, and processing to verify an item. This verification includes illuminating the item in a way that causes a noticeable response from a security mark (or marks) on the item. An image of the response may be captured and processed to authenticate/verify the item. The point of sale system may then respond to the verification and/or may store the image/results as a record of the verification.

Multifunction point of sale system

An indicia reader system includes: an indicia reader for reading symbol indicia and producing a symbol signal representative of the symbol indicia, the indicia reader capable of transferring and receiving data formatted in a plurality of protocols; a controller capable of transferring and receiving data formatted in a plurality of protocols; and, a translation interface for translating data from the controller which is in a first protocol to a second protocol for receipt by the indicia reader.

Indicia reader that simultaneously operates as a point-of-transaction indicia reader and a serial port device

Method for updating indicia readers

An optical reader, which is operable in a 'host commands' mode and a 'host routines' mode. In the &#x201c;host commands&#x201d; mode, the reader receives and executes a script routine module from a host. In the &#x201c;host routines&#x201d; mode, the reader receives a script routine Module identifier from the host, and the reader, in turn, executes a selected one of a plurality of reader-stored script routine modules based on the identifier.

Customizable optical reader

There is provided herein an encoded information reading terminal such as may be provided for by a bar code reading terminal for operation in a network such as a retail store network that is configured in one embodiment to automatically enter a unique association mode of operation subsequent to wirelessly receiving a radio address from one computer of a plurality of computers, e.g., a cash register address from one cash register out of a plurality of cash registers. In one embodiment a bar code reading terminal can be configured to wait for a cash register address to be wirelessly received as part of a connection request initiated from one cash register out of a plurality of cash registers. A bar code reading terminal can be configured so that when operating in a unique association mode, a bar code reading terminal transmits all decoded bar code messages output by the bar code reading terminal to an external device to the one cash register sending its cash register address.

Method and apparatus for uniquely associating a bar code reading terminal to a cash register in a retail store network

A retail store network comprising a cash register, server, and hand held optical reader for reading a bar code symbol of an item and generating a decoded out bar code data message. The hand held bar code reader has an electrical connector and a wireless transceiver. The optical reader can be used with a base unit also having an electrical connector and a wireless transceiver. The network is configured so that the hand held bar code reader and the base unit have one linking mode in which the address of the base unit is sent to the hand held bar code reader through their respective electrical connectors. The linking process is completed by way of wireless communication, including the transmission of the address of the hand held bar code reader to the base unit. The hand held bar code reader further comprises circuitry to allow the optical reader to also operate in a linking mode where it can link with other devices that it cannot physically mate its electrical connector with, but can initiate the linking and complete the process wirelessly.

Method and system for linking a wireless hand held optical reader with a base unit or other wireless device

An optical reader with at least two variable definition soft keys positioned adjacent the display and externally labeled with permanent down and up arrow indicia. Variable definition soft keys are highly versatile an allow the user to change or alter the function of the soft keys based on a user program. Soft keys positioned adjacent the display and labeled with down and up arrows graphically reinforce a wide range of text and graphic combinations shown on the display.

Optical reader comprising soft key including permanent graphic indicia

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Syracuse, NY, United States of America

Joseph A Walczyk