Software method for emulating a serial port between applications for enabling communications by mobile bar code readers and computer terminals in wireless networks
US7461384B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 20, 2002 |
| Grant date | Dec 2, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 28, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F13/105
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An application program interface in a computer for allowing application programs executing in the computer to access a wireless RF input/output facility or port in the computer, which emulates a serial port in the computer by the steps of opening a handle to a virtual COM port from an application program executing in the computer; opening and configuring a serial port by the application program; starting a thread to receive characters to be communicated through the RF facility; and utilizing the virtual COM port to open a component interface to allow communications through wireless RF communications.
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