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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffry Jovan Philyaw, Dallas, TX (US);
Douglas L. Davis, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Digital:Convergence Corp., Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method is provided for transmitting data from an optical reader following scanning by the optical reader of an indica encoding information in accordance with one of a plurality of information encoding types. The method includes determining that a particular one of the plurality of encoding types was used for encoding the scanned indicia. A message packet is then transmitted from the optical reader which is indicative of the particular one of the plurality of encoding types that was used for encoding the scanned indicia.