Abstract: A system for remote database access is provided. The system includes an enterprise database that stores two or more sets of data. A data synchronizer receives one or more user-defined sets of data and generates one or more templates that define the relationship between the two or more sets of data in the enterprise database and the user-defined set of data. A remote data system receives the user-defined sets of data and receives user-entered data update. The data synchronizer receives the user-entered data update and maps the user-entered data update to the enterprise database using the templates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding two-dimensional barcode symbols from a data stream generated by scanning a two-dimensional barcode with a one-dimensional scanner. A decoding process according to one embodiment of the invention involves coupling the one-dimensional scanner to a serial or other port of a host computer in order to provide a data stream to a software decoder resident in the host computer. The software decoder performs a series of iterative steps in which the data stream is sampled at regular intervals to convert the data stream to a series of elements (e.g., bars and spaces). Barcode symbol data characters are then derived from the elements. A symbol matrix is next constructed, the matrix being representative of the two-dimensional barcode symbol.