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US 2008/0186147 A1Published application
Hierarchical RFID
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorBoaz Carmeli
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Abstract
An RFID tag is provided including an object ID and a counter. Such an RFID tag may be employed in an RFID tag system including a parent RFID tag having an object ID and a counter, a child RFID tag, and a reader/writer configured to read the object ID and the counter of the parent RFID tag, combine values of the object ID and the counter, and write the combined value to an object ID of the child RFID tag.
Claims11
An RFID tag comprising:
- an object ID;
- and
- a counter.
An RFID tag system comprising:
- a parent RFID tag having an object ID and a counter;
- a child RFID tag;
- and
- a reader/writer configured to
- read said object ID and said counter of said parent RFID tag,
- combine values of said object ID and said counter, and
- write said combined value to an object ID of said child RFID tag.
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A method for managing RFID tags, the method comprising:
- configuring an RFID tag with an object ID;
- and
- configuring said RFID tag with a counter.
A method for managing RFID tags, the method comprising:
- reading values of an object ID and a counter of a parent RFID tag;
- combining said values;
- and
- writing said combined value to an object ID of a child RFID tag.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.