Patent ID: 6942150
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A Web-based mobile information access terminal for allowing an operator to access and display HTML-encoded documents located on the World Wide Web (WWW) by reading bar code symbols encoded with information specifying the location of said HTML-encoded documents on said WWW, said Web-based mobile information access terminal comprising: a hand-supportable housing; a bar code symbol reader, integrated with said hand-supportable housing, and programmed for (i) reading a bar code symbol encoded with information specifying the location of an HTML-encoded document located on the WWW, and (ii) producing symbol character data representative of said information; visual information display means, integrated with said band-supportable housing, for visually displaying information including graphical information contained in said HTML-encoded document specified by said information; Web accessing means, disposed in said hand-supportable housing and responsive to said bar code symbol reader, said Web accessing means further including a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver, integrated with said hand-supportable housing and being operably connected to said Web accessing means, for enabling a wireless two-way telecommunication link between said Web accessing means and a base station operably connected to an Internet service provider (ISP) connected to the Internet so as to enable said Web accessing means to access said HTML-encoded document.