Patent ID: 7254666

Claim:
A system for providing instructions directly relating to individual ones of a plurality of substantially immovable equipment, each at a substantially inaccessible location, comprising: (A) a plurality of permanently spatially fixed processors and memory devices, wherein at least one permanently spatially fixed processor and memory device is affixed to each of the individual ones of the plurality of substantially immovable equipment, the instructions residing on each memory device uniquely and directly relating to each one of the substantially immovable equipment to which the memory device is affixed; and (B) a portable memory reading device, separate from the memory device, capable of uploading and downloading the instructions to and from multiple ones of the plurality of memory devices, via a non-permanent wireless proximity link, while the plurality of processors and memory devices are affixed to their respective substantially immovable equipment, and communicating received ones of the instructions to a user of said portable memory reading device, wherein each of said plurality of processors processes the instructions to and from said memory device, including processing for forwarding of the instructions from the associated memory device to said memory reading device.