Jeffrey Morgan Hunt

US Patent:

6356949, Mar 12, 2002

Filed:

Jan 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/240303

Inventors:

James T. Katsandres - Seattle WA
Jeffrey M. Hunt - Everett WA
Chau Minh Ho - Edmonds WA
Paul David Shoeman - Lynnwood WA

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corp. - Beverly Hills CA

International Classification:

G06F 15173

US Classification:

709238, 709217, 709203

Abstract:

A method and system for receiving a clients instructions with regard to specifying an output mechanism and a data type for data received from an automatic data collection (âADCâ) device on an ADC device platform. The method and system allows client applications to register their ADC data requests in a grid that is referenced during the processing of received ADC data. Clients, residing either on the ADC device platform or on a remote computing system, register with a data transfer mechanism to receive data via a particular output mechanism. Following registration of a clients preferred output mechanism, the data transfer mechanism forwards all data received for the client by the ADC device platform to the clients specified output mechanism. Using the data transfer mechanism, the same set of input data, destined for more than one application, may be simultaneously transmitted over different output mechanisms. The invention may utilize data output mechanisms such as pipes, remote procedure calls (âRPCâ), sockets, stream files, NetBIOS, mail slots, NetDDE, and shared memory.

US Patent:

6398105, Jun 4, 2002

Filed:

Jan 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/239222

Inventors:

Jon R. Ramberg - Lynnwood WA
Jeffrey M. Hunt - Everett WA
Paul David Shoeman - Lynnwood WA
James T. Katsandres - Seattle WA

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corporation - Beverly Hills CA

International Classification:

G06F 1700

US Classification:

235375, 707 1, 707 10

Abstract:

A method and system for intelligently routing data received from an automatic data collection (âADCâ) device in an ADC device platform based on its type. A data routing mechanism operates on the data-receiving side of an ADC data server. After identifying the characteristics of the input data, the data routing mechanism determines the destination for the data based on the characteristics, then routes the data to the selected destination. For some types of data, the selected destination may be an intermediate destination where the data undergoes additional processing before being transmitted to another location, while for other types of data the selected destination may be the application that ultimately processes the data. For example, the data routing mechanism may receive a set of input data, analyze the data to determine that the data is voice data, and then route the data to a speech recognition module that processes voice data. ADC devices accommodated by the system include bar code readers, speech recognition systems, RF tag readers, resonator readers, and two-dimensional symbol readers optical character recognition (âOCRâ) systems.

US Patent:

6488209, Dec 3, 2002

Filed:

Jan 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/240425

Inventors:

Jeffrey M. Hunt - Everett WA
Kenneth Y. Ogami - Bothell WA
Jon R. Ramberg - Lynnwood WA
James T. Katsandres - Seattle WA

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corp. - Beverly Hills CA

International Classification:

G06K 710

US Classification:

23546215, 23546225

Abstract:

A method and system for dynamically wedging data received from one or more automatic data collection (âADCâ) devices on an ADC device platform into a destination application based upon wedging criteria. A dynamic wedge receives data from one or more ADC devices and automatically wedges the data into applications based upon user-provided data characteristics or a predetermined set of rules. Applicable wedging criteria used to route data include those that are user-composed and those that pertain to firmware or software characteristics. The dynamic wedge may comprise an ADC data server, ADC device handlers, ADC protocol handlers, and a wedging grid for retaining wedging directives. The ADC data server receives wedging directives from local and remote client applications and stores the wedging directives in the wedging grid. When data arrives from an ADC device, the ADC data server analyzes the data to determine its characteristics. The ADC data server compares the identified characteristics against the wedging directives stored in the wedging grid.

US Patent:

6539422, Mar 25, 2003

Filed:

May 3, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/304217

Inventors:

Jeffrey M. Hunt - Everett WA
Jon R. Ramberg - Lynnwood WA
Paul D. Shoeman - Lynnwood WA
James T. Katsandres - Seattle WA

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corp. - Beverly Hills CA

International Classification:

G06F 1516

US Classification:

709217, 709202, 709203, 709230

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for controlling a plurality of automatic data collection (ADC) device platforms. In the invention, a remote computing system having browsing software adapted for receiving and sending Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents, Dynamic Hypertext Mark-Up Language (DHTML) documents, and Exstensible Mark Up Language (XML) documents over the World Wide Web communicates with a network of ADC platform devices. A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) master agent at the ADC device platform communicates with the remote computing system and a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server sends HTML documents, DHTML documents, and XML documents to the remote computing system over the World Wide Web. A translator translates SNMP-formatted data sent to the attached ADC devices into a format suitable for reception by each ADC device. Another translator translates data received from the ADC devices into the SNMP format.

US Patent:

6857013, Feb 15, 2005

Filed:

Jan 29, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/240108

Inventors:

Jon R. Ramberg - Lynnwood WA, US
Jeffrey M. Hunt - Everett WA, US
Paul David Shoeman - Lynnwood WA, US
James T. Katsandres - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Intermec IP.Corp. - Beverly Hills CA

International Classification:

G06F015/173

US Classification:

709223, 709220

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for remotely diagnosing and repairing a plurality of Automatic Data Collection (“ADC”) device platforms. A remote service technician utilizes a computing system having browsing software that communicates with a network of ADC platform devices. Diagnostic queries for particular ADC devices may be retrieved by the browsing software from a diagnostic server that sends Hypertext Mark-Up Language (“HTML”) documents, Dynamic Hypertext Mark-Up Language (“DHTML”) documents, and/or Extensible Mark-Up Language (“XML”) documents containing appropriate diagnostic applets. The remote technician sends diagnostic queries to a Simple Network Management Protocol (“SNMP”) master agent at the ADC device platform, and a translator translates the diagnostic queries sent to the ADC device platform into a format suitable for reception by its ADC devices in order to effect anomaly diagnosis and functionality restoration. Another translator translates data received from the ADC device into the SNMP format for transmission to the remote service technician in order for the remote service technician to perform diagnostic analysis. The SNMP master agent communicates with the remote computing system using the Transmission Control Protocol (“TCP”), the User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol (“UDP/IP”), and/or the User Datagram Plus Protocol (“UDP+”).

US Patent:

7392951, Jul 1, 2008

Filed:

May 16, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/436123

Inventors:

Jim T. Ray - Everett WA, US
Robert A. Kohtz - Cedar Rapids IA, US
Michael Dant - Cedar Rapids IA, US
Jeffrey M. Hunt - Woodinville WA, US

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corp. - Everett WA

International Classification:

G06K 7/10

US Classification:

2354622, 23546225, 23546201, 23546209, 23546245

Abstract:

A reader such as a barcode reader identifies at least one potential target such as a barcode symbol in its field-of-view, and projects or transmits an indicator toward or proximate the potential target containing information about the respective potential target. Such information may include which target is currently active, the symbology in which the target is encoded, the relative position of the reader with respect to the target, the ability of the reader to decode the target, and/or ranked or sorted order information regarding the target and neighboring targets. The reader may rank, sort, prioritize or otherwise determine order based on various parameters, including symbology, position in field-of-view, size, etc. , and may base such on past history of the reader and/or user, and may weight such.

US Patent:

8002173, Aug 23, 2011

Filed:

Jul 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/775088

Inventors:

Sprague Ackley - Everett WA, US
Jeffrey M. Hunt - Woodinville WA, US

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corp. - Everett WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/00

US Classification:

235375, 235454

Abstract:

A first machine-readable data carrier comprises an embedded command to control communication with a second machine-readable data carrier. An automatic data collection system is configured to extract the embedded command from the first machine-readable data carrier and to execute the command with respect to the second machine-readable data carrier.

US Patent:

8069369, Nov 29, 2011

Filed:

Sep 3, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/934064

Inventors:

Jon R. Ramberg - Lynnwood WA, US
Jeffrey M. Hunt - Everett WA, US
Paul D. Shoeman - Lynnwood WA, US
James T. Katsandres - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Intermec IP Corp. - Everett WA

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 25

Abstract:

The invention provides a system and method for remotely diagnosing and repairing a plurality of device platforms. A remote service technician utilizes a computing system having browsing software that communicates with a network of platform devices.