Arrangement for, and method of, locating product tags by locating users who are operating mobile readers for reading the product tags
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRICHARD J. LAVERY, RUSSELL E. CALVARESE, CHARLES LAURIA
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Abstract
A user moves about a venue, and operates a mobile reader to read a product tag in a read zone of the mobile reader. An identifier, such as a user identity badge, is associated with the user to identify the user. A sensing system is deployed in the venue for sensing the location of the identifier. A host server associates the mobile reader with the identifier of the user operating the mobile reader, and determines a location of the product tag in the venue based on the read zone and the location of the identifier.
Claims20
An arrangement for locating a product tag associated with a product in a venue, comprising:
- a mobile reader operated by a user in the venue, and operative for reading the product tag in a read zone that extends between the mobile reader and the product tag;
- an identifier associated, and jointly movable in the venue, with the user, and operative for identifying the user;
- a sensing system deployed in the venue, and operative for sensing a location of the identifier;
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- a host server operatively connected to the mobile reader and the sensing system, and operative for associating the mobile reader with the identifier of the user operating the mobile reader, and for determining a location of the product tag in the venue based on the read zone and the location of the identifier.
A method of locating a product tag associated with a product in a venue, comprising:
- operating a mobile reader by a user movable in the venue to read the product tag in a read zone that extends between the mobile reader and the product tag;
- associating an identifier with the user to identify the user, the identifier being movable with the user in the venue;
- sensing a location of the identifier;
- associating the mobile reader with the identifier of the user operating the mobile reader;
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- determining a location of the product tag in the venue based on the read zone and the location of the identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.