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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2019
The Code Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
John Deal, Springfield, PA (US);
George Powell, Draper, UT (US);
Garrett Russell, Phoenixville, PA (US);
The Code Corporation, Murray, UT (US);
Abstract
This patent specification describes operations of a mobile device with barcode-reading capabilities and an application and license server. A mobile device may include a barcode-reading application downloaded from an application server. The barcode-reading application may operate in a base mode or an enhanced mode. In the base mode, the barcode-reading application may establish a network connection to a licensing server to obtain a license code, and determine at least one operating permission authorized by the license code. In the enhanced mode, the barcode-reading application may implement at least one enhanced barcode-reading function which corresponds to the at least one operating permission authorized by the license code. For example, the enhanced barcode-reading function may be a function of decoding a barcode symbology that the decoder is restricted from decoding in the base mode of operation.