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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 29, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1996
Andrew J Binder, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An information collection system is used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the collection of information for warranty database for printers. The system includes an information reading device attached to a computer system. Printer configuration and performance parameters which are to be collected are printed on a selftest page encoded as a bar code. In the preferred embodiment of the information collection system, the information reading device is a standard hand held bar code reader and the computer system is a portable computer. A windows based bar code reading utility is used to decode the data from the bar code reader. Information would be collected from the printer by printing a selftest page including the bar code, reading the bar code using the bar code reader, and storing the information decoded by the bar code reading utility on the hard disk drive of the computer system. At a later time, the data is transferred to the warranty database over a communications link such as a modem.