Patent ID: 7117374

Claim:
A method for transferring data between a mobile data acquisition apparatus and a host computer, comprising the steps of: connecting a mobile data acquisition apparatus with a docking device connected to a host computer between a host computer keyboard port and a host computer keyboard; activating said apparatus, whereby said apparatus transmits a signal indicating the presence of said apparatus to said docking device; said docking device senses said signal from said apparatus and transmits a hot key interrupt sequence to said host computer; a software running on said host computer, monitoring said host computer keyboard port transmits a status indicator signal to said docking device; said docking device transmits an acknowledgement signal to said apparatus; said apparatus transmits an information record, indicating the number of data records stored in a mobile data acquisition apparatus memory; said apparatus transmits said data records to said docking device which passes said data records to said software application running on said host computer; said software counts the number of said records; if the number of said records is equal to said information record said software transmits a successful transfer signal to said docking device which passes said signal to said apparatus wherein said apparatus and or said docking device send empty records to indicate an end of record transmission.