Socket Mobile, Inc.

Hand Held Products, Inc.

Richard Kevin Mather

Paul S Montgomery

Herbert H Pfeifer

Leonard L Ott

Robert John Miller

Peter Phillips

Michael D Robinson

James S Ledwith

A method of operating an indicia reader network comprising the steps of: reading an information bearing indicia of an item with a hand held indicia reader having a first wireless transceiver and generating therefrom an encrypted data message in accordance with a FIPS standard; transmitting the encrypted data message from the indicia reader to a base unit having a second wireless transceiver; decrypting the data message within the base; and transmitting the decrypted data message to a host device, wherein the network is configured so that the indicia reader and the base unit have a linking mode in which a base address of the base unit is sent to the indicia reader, and a reader address is sent to the indicia reader and a request to link is sent to the base unit by way of an encrypted wireless communication between the second wireless transceiver and the first wireless transceiver.

Secure wireless indicia reader

Mobile computing device

Mobile computing device docking station

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Salisbury, NC, United States of America

Richard Kevin Mather