Patent ID: 7823778

Claim:
A system for inventory scanning comprising: a plurality of scanning devices configured for scanning information representing inventory items to produce input data and configured for two-way data communication via a radio-access network, and a web services scanner adapter coupled to the radio-access network and to an inventory management system, configured for receiving the input data from the scanning devices through the radio-access network and transferring the input data from the scanning devices to the inventory management system, and configured for receiving control information from the inventory management system and delivering the control information to the scanning devices through the radio-access network, wherein: each scanning device of the plurality of scanning devices includes a data processing unit for running an inventory scanning application managed by the inventory management system based on the downloaded control information; and the web services scanner adapter is configured to provide a scanning device with user identification data to define information to be presented by the scanning device to a particular user identified by the user identification data.