Patents by Inventor Jerome Swartz

Jerome Swartz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System for digital radio communication between a wireless lan and a PBX
    Patent number: 6330244
    Abstract: A wireless local area network for digital radio communication between remote devices and a PBX telephone system, wherein the remote devices can access and use the voice message features in the PBX and the data bases on a host computer and servers. A wireless phone is provided for voice and data communication through the PBX or a CO telephone line with remote locations or the Internet using digital data packets and standard Internet Protocol. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the remote device is a cash register comprising a bar code scanner and a phone. Radio communication between the register and a host computer is carried out over two channels, a first channel for data communication and a second channel for voice communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Fred P. Heiman, Daniel R. McGlynn, Robert Beach
  • System for reading data on different planes of focus based on reflected light
    Patent number: 6328212
    Abstract: A system for reading data stored on a target in two different viewing planes includes a laser light source for generating a laser light beam and mirrors for focusing the laser beam on the two spaced apart viewing planes. Sensors detect the light reflected from each of the two viewing planes and generates an electrical signal indicative of the detected light. A signal processor, processes and decodes the data associated with the viewing plane on which the beam is in focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Metlitasky, Jerome Swartz, Edward Barkan
  • Arrangement for and method of expediting commercial product transactions at a point-of-sale site
    Patent number: 6308888
    Abstract: A method of and arrangement for updating inventory markings include printing an updated label containing updated information such as price obtained from the data base of a host computer on a real-time basis. The updated label is applied to a product identified by a scanner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerome Swartz
  • Detachable battery pack for electro-optical scanners
    Patent number: 6308892
    Abstract: A battery pack is detachably secured by a snap-type action to a handle of a generally gun-shaped scanning head in a system for electro-optically reading coded indicia, such as bar code symbols. The battery pack includes a set of rechargeable batteries mounted in a casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Howard M. Shepard, Eric F. Barkan, Mark J. Krichever, Boris Metlitsky, Edward Barkan, Alexander M. Adelson
  • System for reading barcode symbols
    Publication number: 20010027997
    Abstract: An apparatus for reading indicia having parts of different light reflectivity includes a keyboard for inputting data, a monitor for housing a display, and a reader for reading said indicia, wherein said reader is retractably integrated into either said keyboard, monitor, or a point-of-sale terminal. The apparatus has a particular application in reading barcode symbols in instances where there is a need to save space or where there is a need to avoid the cost of purchasing a separate reader component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Paul Cocuzza, Anthony M. Gangemi, Jerome Swartz
  • Statistical sampling security methodology for self-scanning checkout system
    Publication number: 20010015375
    Abstract: A statistical basis for use in a self-scanning checkout system determines how many items to check in a shopper's shopping cart for incorrect or missing scans as well as which particular or types of items to check to determine if they were properly scanned, if the shopper is determined to be audited. The present invention does not audit every customer, but rather determines whether a given shopper or customer is to be audited on a given shopping trip based upon obtaining a minimum checkout loss for such customer. The methodology determines how many items to check for a given shopper as well as which particular items to check for that shopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Publication date: August 23, 2001
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Stephen J. Shellammer, Joseph Kartz, Theo Woffinden, Juditth Murrah, Edward Beadle, Raj Bridgelall
  • Self-service checkout system utilizing portable communications terminal
    Patent number: 6243447
    Abstract: A system for transferring data between a centrally located site and a portable communications terminal via a telephone network, the site having associated therewith a look up table containing plurality of data records correlating to items disposed at a retail establishment, wherein each of the items has associated therewith a bar code encoded with the indicia unique to each item, with each of the bar coded indicia corresponding to a particular record in the table, the data containing at least a portion of said record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Ron Goldman, Thomas Roslak, Gary Serbin, Anthony R. Barkume, Miklos Stern, Jay P. White
  • Portable optical scanning and pointing systems
    Patent number: 6145746
    Abstract: An optical scanning system for reading indicia of differing light reflectivity has an optical scan module which is adapted to be mounted on a finger of a user. A first peripheral module, preferably in the form of a wrist watch, has a receiver which detects the reflected light. A second peripheral module, mounted on the other arm of the user, communicates with the first module by radio frequency transmission. According to other aspects of the invention, the light detector may be mounted in a housing which is separate and part from the optical scan module. According to another aspect, a laser pointer or scanner is mounted to a ring which is arranged to be worn on a single finger of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Bard, Joseph Katz, Frederic Heiman, Paul Dvorkis, Edward Barkan, Jerome Swartz, Boris Metlitsky, Miklos Stern, Mark Krichever
  • Arrangement for and method of expediting commercial product transactions at a point-of-sale site
    Patent number: 6131814
    Abstract: Commercial transactions are expedited at a point-of-transaction site by providing a customer with advance notification of the price of selected goods, by providing the customer with a portable, integrated reader/terminal unit having an on-board display on which the price of the selected goods is displayed in response to a manual action on the part of the customer holding the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerome Swartz
  • RF interrogatable processing system
    Patent number: 6128549
    Abstract: A system for storing articles having different descriptions in an enclosure and providing the enclosure with an wireless interrogatable unit having stored indications of the descriptions of the stored articles. The system further contemplates interrogating the enclosure's wireless interrogatable unit to determine the enclosure content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Charles Wang, Joseph Katz
  • Apparatus and method for determining a distance to a target
    Patent number: 6123264
    Abstract: A range finder for use with a bar code scanner. An image of a scan line is detected by a sensor array. Distance from the scanner to the bar code symbol is determined from the length of the detected scan line image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yajun Li, Joseph Katz, Jerome Swartz, Daniel McGlynn, Edward Barkan
  • Integrated scanner on a common substrate
    Patent number: 6102294
    Abstract: A light scanning system formed on a common substrate comprises a light scanner and a sensor. The light scanner scans light across a target. The sensor detects light reflected from the target and creates a signal representative of the detected light. The light scanner may include a light source and a deflector, such as a micro-machined scan module. The micro-machined scan module may comprise an electrode, a support mounted on the electrode, and a mirror element mounted at one end of the support, wherein a voltage applied between the electrode and mirror element bends the mirror element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Miklos Stern, Joseph Katz, Yajun Li
  • Self-checkout, point-of-transaction system including deactivatable electro-optically coded surveillance tags
    Patent number: 6102290
    Abstract: A self-check apparatus is provided for processing a sales transaction of an article having an attached surveillance tag, each attached surveillance tag bearing a coded indicia such as a bar code. The self-checkout apparatus stores an indication of the articles which have been selected for purchase. When the surveillance tag is presented to the apparatus for deactivation, the bar code on the tag is scanned, and a check is made to verify that the surveillance tag is attached to an article which has been selected for purchase, and provided such verification is made, the surveillance tag is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, William Tracy
  • Personal shopping system portable terminal
    Patent number: 6101483
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal shopping system for combined use in both the home of a user and a shopping establishment. The system includes a host computer which is coupled to a host modem and, optionally, to at least one wireless multi-access point. At least one shopping establishment kiosk cradle is employed to interface with a portable terminal which is also part of the system. The portable terminal can be used in both the shopping establishment and the home of the user. It is configured to read bar codes associated with items related to shopping, and includes a memory, a bar code reader, a wireless transceiver, and a data interface. The data interface of the terminal communicates with a data interface of the shopping establishment kiosk cradle. A home cradle for the portable terminal is also provided and is adapted to remain in the home of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Petrovich, Thomas K. Roslak, Jerome Swartz, Raj Bridgelall
  • Apparatus for processing symbol-encoded document information
    Patent number: 6095418
    Abstract: Document information is encoded in a graphic symbol applied to the document. The symbol is read to retrieve the document information which is then translated into a humanly discernible form different from that appearing on the document. In one embodiment of the invention, a symbol is applied to sheet music and encoded with the music score printed thereon. The symbol can then be read to produce an audio rendition of the music score. Also, a symbol can be applied to a printed text page and text encoded. The symbol can then be read to produce a vocal reading of the text. Other applications using encoded symbols to uniquely identify or memorialize persons named on credit cards and business cards are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Raj Bridgelall, Ron Goldman, Eugene Joseph, Joseph Katz
  • Statistical sampling security methodology for self-scanning checkout system
    Patent number: 6092725
    Abstract: A statistical basis for use in a self-scanning checkout system determines how many items to check in a shopper's shopping cart for incorrect or missing scans as well as which particular or types of items to check to determine if they were properly scanned, if the shopper is determined to be audited. The present invention does not audit every customer, but rather determines whether a given shopper or customer is to be audited on a given shopping trip based upon obtaining a minimum checkout loss for such customer. The methodology determines how many items to check for a given shopper as well as which particular items to check for that shopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Stephen J. Shellhammer, Joseph Katz, Theo Pavlidis, John Woffinden, Judith Murrah, Edward Beadle, Raj Bridgelall
  • Retro-reflective laser scanning head with rear reflector
    Patent number: 6068190
    Abstract: In a system for electro-optically reading bar code symbols, a movable reflector is rearwardly positioned in a hand-held housing. A sensor receives light reflected off a bar code symbol from the reflector over a scan that extends across the entire bar code symbol. The housing has a window, a front end and a handle for enabling a user to hold and support the housing in one's hand, and to aim the front end of the housing at the bar code symbol during reading. A signal processor in the housing processes an electrical signal from the sensor to generate therefrom data descriptive of the bar code symbol being read. The reflector is positioned at a distance from the front end of the housing, and the length of the scan is proportional to that distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard M. Shepard, Edward D. Barkan, Jerome Swartz
  • Data collection terminal with components mounted on printed circuit boards therein
    Patent number: 6050491
    Abstract: A plurality of printed circuit boards is mounted within a housing of a data collection terminal. The boards lie in respective planes generally parallel to the plane of a top wall of the housing. The boards are spaced apart along an upright direction generally normal to the plane of the top wall. Terminal components are mounted on the circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard M. Shepard, Edward D. Barkan, Jerome Swartz
  • Integrated circuit implemented on a semiconductor substrate in a bar code reader
    Patent number: 6021947
    Abstract: An integrated circuit for use in a bar code reader and method of making the same. The integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, as well as a laser diode driver circuit and a digitizer circuit implemented on the substrate. The integrated circuit may also include a decoder circuit, a scan element driver circuit, a microcontroller, or a communications interface, each implemented on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jerome Swartz
  • Hand mountable adaptive barcode scanner
    Patent number: 6015090
    Abstract: A hand-mountable adaptive bar code scanner includes a scanner for generating a light beam directed toward a target, the light beam sweeping the symbol to be read. The scanner further includes a photodetector for receiving reflected light from such symbol, and circuitry to determine whether the signal received is sufficiently distinct to determine that a valid symbol has been scanned, and signal processing circuitry having adjustable gain, bandwidth, and digitizer threshold characteristics for processing such signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Swartz, Edward Barkan, Glenn S. Spitz, Joseph Katz, Boris Metlitsky