Patent ID: 6732933
Filing Date: 2004-05-11
Classification: G06K,G07G,H04W

Abstract:
A message delivery system, comprising:a) a mobile terminal carried and operated by a first person, including a reader for electro-optically reading machine-readable indicia to generate message data corresponding to a human-readable message to be delivered to a second person remotely located from the first person, a memory for storing identification data to uniquely identify the terminal, and a wireless terminal transceiver for transmitting over a wireless medium a data signal containing the message data and the identification data, the terminal and the terminal receiver being physically separate units that are physically connected together to initiate transmission of the data signal; b) a server on a network having a destination database accessed by the server, including a wireless server transceiver for receiving the data signal, and for transmitting at a radio frequency over a wireless medium to a destination retrieved from the database a destination signal containing a pager alert signal and a message signal corresponding to the message data; and c) a mobile pager carried by the second person, including a display and a wireless pager receiver tuned to the radio frequency for receiving the pager alert signal to alert the second person that the message is available, and for receiving the message signal to deliver the message on the display for viewing by the second person.