Method and apparatus for wirelessly networked distributed resource usage for data gathering

Abstract

A method and system for gathering, collecting, and supplying geographically distributed data. In one embodiment, geographically distributed data is gathered in a server-commanded mode, such that the user of an electronic device need not participate in the capturing or transmitting of the data. In another embodiment, a server initiates requests the user of an electronic device to input data and the data then transmitted to the server. In another embodiment, a user initiates the capture of data with an electronic device and the electronic device transmits the data to a computer server. In another embodiment, the gathering of geographically distributed data is accomplished by the user of an electronic device instructing his electronic device to automatically collect input data and the data is then transmitted to a computer server. In embodiments of the present invention, the electronic device is a palm-sized computer system.

1 . In a computer server connected to a plurality of electronic devices via a wireless communications link, a method of commanding said electronic devices to gather geographically distributed data comprising the steps of:
 (A) selecting a said electronic device;   (B) commanding said selected electronic device to capture geographically distributed data;   (C) receiving said captured geographically distributed data; and   (D) storing said received geographically distributed data.   
     
     
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