Patent ID: 7934659

Claim:
A wireless portable data terminal (PDT) system for use and communication with a base station by way of an electromagnetic-based radio-frequency (RF) 2-way digital data communication link, said wireless PDT system comprising: a hand-supportable housing; a rechargeable battery supported within said hand-supportable housing; a data capture engine mounted within said hand-supportable housing, for optically capturing data, about objects optically encoded in information structures such as bar code symbols; a LCD panel integrated with said hand-supportable housing; a micro-computing platform mounted within said hand-supportable housing, and capable of (i) running/executing application programs on a first kind of operating system (OS1) that is emulated on a virtual machine that is supported on a second kind of operating system (OS2) so that the application programs can be developed on developer computers-running the first kind of operating system OS1, and (ii) supporting a graphical user interface (GUI) on said LCD panel for graphically displaying and manipulating documents; and a user control console having a manual data-entry structure for manually entering data into said documents.