Re: [Patents] UK Govt challenging patent on wireless networking in schools

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> Claim 1:
>
> http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/bnsviewer?CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPD&PN=EP0664061&ID=EP+++0664061B1+I+
>
> A student data collection system comprising a central computer (12)
> including a data collation program and wireless transceiver means (14),
> and a plurality of portable data collection units (2) for use by
> teachers/supervisors, each of which also includes wireless transceiver
> means (10) for communication with the central computer; characterised in
> that the central computer includes means for downloading respective sets
> of student data to each of the portable units, and in that each portable
> unit (2) includes manual data input means (8) and a data logging program
> so that the user can enter student attendance and/or other data to
> produce an output for uploading to the central computer which is a
> combination of the downloaded data and the manual input by the user.

This is claim 1 of the application I guess.
It may not have been granted in this extreme form.

To find out what was granted, you have to look at the PDF file.

An automatically ocr-ed version is appearing at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/txt/ep/0664/061/

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