Internet-based remote monitoring, configuration and service (RMCS) system capable of monitoring, configuring and servicing a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based network

US7070106B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• METROLOGIC INSTRUMENTS, INC. · US

Inventors

• C. Harry Knowles · Moorestown, US
• Mark Schmidt · Williamstown, US
• Xiaoxun Zhu · Marlton, US
• Shawn Defoney · Runnemede, US
• Edward Skypala · Blackwood, US
• Constantine J. Tsikos · Voorhees, US
• Ka Man Au · Philadelphia, US
• Barry E. Schwartz · Haddonfield, US
• Allan Wirth · Bedford, US
• Andrew Jankevics · Westford, US
• Timothy Good · Blackwood, US
• Sankar Ghosh · Philadelphia, US
• Michael Schnee · Chester, US
• George Kolis · Pennsauken, US
• Thomas Amundsen · Turnersville, US
• Charles A. Naylor · Sewell, US
• Robert Blake · Woodbury Heights, US
• Russell Joseph Dobbs · Cherry Hill, US
• Jeffery Yorsz · Winchester, US
• Patrick Giordano · Glassboro, US
• Stephen J. Colavito · Westtown, US
• David Wilz · Sewell, US
• William Svedas · Deptford, US
• Steven Y. Kim · Cambridge, US
• Dale M. Fischer · Voorhees, US
• Jon Tassell · Winchester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2006
• Expiry date: Feb 17, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01S5/4025
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An Internet-based remote monitoring, configuration and service (RMCS) system capable of monitoring, configuring and servicing a planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based network. The network has one or more nodes and performs object identification and attribute acquisition functions. Each node is a PLIIM-based subsystem operably connected to a digital communications network interconnectable to the infrastructure of the Internet. The Internet-based RMCS system comprises a monitoring subsystem for remotely monitoring a set parameters associated with the PLIIM-based network. The set of parameters relate to network, system and/or subsystem characteristics of the PLIIM-based network. The RMCS also includes an analyzing subsystem for remotely analyzing the parameters to diagnose (i) performance failures in the PLIIM-based network, as well as (ii) the operation and performance of the PLIIM-based network. The RMCS also includes a control subsystem for remotely controlling one or more of the parameters so as to improve the performance of the PLIIM-based network and/or provide service thereto from a remote location.