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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Hand Held Products, Inc., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC., Fort Mill, SC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 19/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10386 (2013.01); G06K 19/0727 (2013.01);
Abstract
A wireless scanner is described that performs a pairing operation with a wireless scanner base before commencing scanning operations in a wireless scanner network. Radio frequency identification (RFID) is used to achieve the pairing operation of the wireless scanner with the wireless scanner base by using an RFID tag associated with the wireless scanner base. The RFID tag in the wireless scanner base may contain pairing information such as a network address of the wireless scanner base for use in automatically establishing a wireless communication session with the wireless scanner base in accordance with another wireless protocol.