Patent ID: 8032129

Claim:
A data storage method of a handheld data collecting device using a home network, comprising: requesting by the handheld data collecting device a device, a device search through the home network that remotely communicates with the home network using a different communication protocol than the home network uses to communicate with one or more devices while performing a device search through the home network; receiving an acknowledgement by the home network in response to the device search for a storage device connected to the home network; requesting device information by the home network, to the storage device that transmits the acknowledgement; configuring a storage path of the hand held data collecting device to a storage device in the home network by using the received device information; and collecting data and storing the collected data in real time into the storage device using the storage path wherein the data collecting device storing the collected data into the storage device, stores the data in a common form that is playable by other devices within the home network that utilize a different format that the handheld data collecting device outside the home that collected the data, and without additional data transmission manipulation for transferring the collected data inside the home network and wherein the data collected by the handheld data collecting device is stored in the storage device for playback by said other devices without uploading.