Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Remote data accessing
Patent
1998-10-28
2000-11-07
Maung, Zarni
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Remote data accessing
709200, 709206, 707500, G06F 1516
Patent
active
061449970
ABSTRACT:
A system including any number workstations, file servers, printers and other fixed devices coupled in a network, and a number of portable devices carried by users and coupled to the network by infrared (IR) link. Each portable device emulates its user's personal satchel for documents: the device is programmed to receive transmit and store document references or tokens, each of which is associated with an electronic document stored in the database. Documents are distributed from one person to another by transmission of document references or tokens, and a document is sent to a printer by beaming that document's reference or token to an IR transceiver associated with that printer. The portable device is preferably a handheld or wristwatch computer with a graphical display for enabling the user to transfer documents, and the fixed devices preferably include a scanner/copier/printer having its own IR transceiver.
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Flynn Michael J.
Lamming Michael
Maung Zarni
Najjar Saleh
Xerox Corporation
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