Patent Document ID: 7934660
Application ID: 11582151

Base Claim:
1. A data collection system comprising: a hand held portable data collection terminal having a bar code reader device for decoding bar code symbols, a manual trigger for actuation of bar code decoding, and a radio transceiver; and a computer spaced apart from said hand held portable data collection terminal, said computer having a display, said hand held portable data collection terminal and said computer being configured as part of an IP network including both of said hand held portable data collection terminal and said computer; said computer being configured to display a graphical user interface prompting an operator of said data collection system to enter configuration data for reconfiguring said radio transceiver, said computer further being configured to process configuration data entered by said operator at said computer to build an extensible markup language document including entered data; wherein said data collection system is configured so that said extensible markup language document can be transferred from said computer to said hand held portable data collection terminal either by way of (i) encoding data of said extensible markup language and then decoding encoded data utilizing said bar code reader device of said hand held portable data collection terminal or (ii) transmitting data of said extensible markup language document from said computer to said portable data collection terminal utilizing a data communication protocol supported by said IP network.

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Claim 2:
2. The data collection system of claim 1 , wherein said computer is further configured to build a data package including said extensible markup language document and file data corresponding to a file other than extensible markup language document.