Patent ID: 6539422
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
A system for controlling a plurality of hand-held devices having at least one automatic data collection reader, comprising:a remote computing system having a modem and a browser that receives Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, Dynamic Hypertext Mark-Up Language (DHTML) documents, and Exstensible Mark Up Language (XML) documents over the World Wide Web; for each hand-held device of the plurality of hand-held devices: a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) master agent that communicates with the remote computing system; a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server that receives document queries from the browser of the remote computing system and sends HTML documents, DHTML documents, and XML documents to the remote computing system over the World Wide Web; a first translator that translates SNMP-formatted data sent from the SNMP master agent to the at least one automatic data collection reader into a format suitable for reception by the at least one automatic data collection reader; and a second translator that translates data received from the at least one automatic data collection reader into the SNMP format for transmission to the remote computing system.