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A portable hand-held WWW access terminal for accessing HTML encoded documents located on the WWW. The terminal includes a bar code symbol reader in a hand-supportable housing for reading bar code symbols encoded with information, such as URLs, for use in accessing HTML-encoded documents stored in in

A portable hand-held WWW access terminal for accessing HTML encoded documents located on the WWW. The terminal includes a bar code symbol reader in a hand-supportable housing for reading bar code symbols encoded with information, such as URLs, for use in accessing HTML-encoded documents stored in information servers connected to the Internet and supporting the TCP/IP standard. A computing platform is provided for supporting a GUI-based WWW browser program integrated with the bar code symbol reader, in the hand-supportable housing. A telecommunication modem is operably connected to the computing platform in order to establish a two-way telecommunication link between the GUI-based WWW browser and an Internet service provider (ISP) connected to the Internet. In response to reading a URL-encoded bar code symbol, the WWW browser program automatically accesses a corresponding HTML-encoded document on the Internet, for display on a visual display panel integrated with the hand-supportable housing. A keypad is also integrated with the hand-supportable housing for manually providing information to the WWW browser program.

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1. A portable WWW access terminal for allowing an operator to access and display HTML-encoded documents located on the WWW by reading bar code symbols encoded with information specifying the location of said HTML-encoded documents on the WWW, said portable WWW access terminal comprising:a hand-suppo

1. A portable WWW access terminal for allowing an operator to access and display HTML-encoded documents located on the WWW by reading bar code symbols encoded with information specifying the location of said HTML-encoded documents on the WWW, said portable WWW access terminal comprising:a hand-supportable housing supportable within the hand of said operator; a bar code symbol reader, integrated with said hand-supportable housing, and programmed for (i) reading a bar code symbol encoded with information specifying the location of an HTML-encoded document stored in an information server connected to the Internet and supporting the TCP/IP standard, and (ii) producing symbol character data representative of said information; visual information display means, integrated with said hand-supportable housing, for visually displaying information including graphical information contained in said HTML-encoded document specified by said information; Internet accessing means, disposed in said hand-supportable housing and responsive to said bar code symbol reader, said Internet accessing means further including (i) computing means disposed in said hand-supportable housing, and (ii) a GUI-based WWW browser program executed by said computing means, and integrated with said bar code symbol reader in said hand-supportable housing, so that, in response to said bar code symbol reader reading the bar code symbol encoded with said information, said GUI-based WWW browser program automatically accesses the HTML-encoded document specified by said information using said TCP/IP standard and the symbol character data representative of said information, and automatically displays said accessed HTML-encoded document on said visual information display means for review by the operator; and a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver, integrated with said hand-supportable housing and being operably connected to said Internet accessing means, for enabling a wireless two-way telecommunication link between said Internet accessing means and a base-station operably connected to an Internet service provider connected the Internet so as to enable said Internet accessing means to access said HTML-encoded document.