Stolen bicycle (missing chattel) identification, tracking and location; a system and method

A system for tracking a stolen bicycle (missing chattel) from a plurality of stations, wherein a memory based passive transponder is associated with the stolen bicycle (missing chattel), comprising:

• a plurality of cellular telephone towers/stations at which an operation is performed;
• a plurality of memory based passive transponders wherein one of the memory based passive transponders is associated with each of the plurality of telephone towers/stations for providing and/or receiving information bearing electrical signals in a microwave frequency in a memory based tag (smart) format, and wherein each of the plurality of memory based transponder readers located in the cellular telephone towers/stations produces information signals representative of information contained in the received information bearing electrical signals and/or inserts information contained in information signals in transmitted information bearing electrical signals in microwave format;
• a plurality of antennae operatively coupled to a respective one of the plurality of memory based transponder readers for transmitting and/or receiving the information bearing electrical signals in microwave format in a detection region located within an urban cellular telephone network which have a plurality of antennae operatively coupled to a respective one of the plurality of memory based transponder readers for transmitting and/or receiving the information bearing electrical signals in microwave format in a detection region located within the cellular range of the cellular telephone region with at least some of said plurality of antennae, including a plurality of parabolic aluminum or loop type antennae, arranged with spatial or temporal separation for coupling the information bearing electrical signals between the memory based transponder reader and a memory based transponder located within the hollow frame of the missing chattel in the detection region with substantially 100% reading rate;
• at least one memory based passive transponder associated with the missing chattel, the memory based transponder including sufficient memory and an antenna coupled to the electronic memory for transmitting and/or receiving information bearing electrical signals in the memory based transponder (smart) format, wherein the information bearing electrical signals represent information to be stored in the electronic memory and/or represent information produced from the electronic memory;
• wherein the information to be stored in and the information produced from the electronic memory of the memory based transponder includes a permanent number plus application specific data;
• whereby information is communicated between the electronic memory of the memory based transponder and the memory based transponder reader of a particular cellular telephone tower/station when the memory based transponder is in the detection region of that particular station after initiation, a computer processor for processing at least information signals including application specific data and a relational check number from the memory based transponder readers at the plurality of stations and for providing a record of the information represented by the information signals;
• and a secure communication means for communicating the information signals between said computer processor and said plurality of memory based transponder readers and transponders located within the missing chattel.