US 2018/0005172 A1Published application

Tagged item locator method and apparatus

AssigneeIntel Corporation

InventorsMichael Wu, Addicam V. Sanjay, Daniel Gutwein

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Abstract

Apparatus and method to facilitate determination of item locations are disclosed herein. One or more storage medium to store a plurality of initial tag to item holder mappings that define associations between select ones of a plurality of tags associated with items to select ones of a plurality of item holders that hold the items; one or more processors; and read rate and match modules to be executed by the one or more processors may be provided. The read rate module is to generate a current detection rate by one or more antennas for each tag identified in a plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings. The match module is to determine at least one item holder at which each respective tag identified in the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings is most likely to be currently located to provide a location of the item.

Claims24

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

one or more storage medium is to store mappings;
and
one or more processors in communication with the one or more storage medium, wherein the one or more processors is to generate a current detection rate by one or more antennas, of a plurality of antennas, for each tag identified in a plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings over a pre-set time duration, wherein the one or more processors is to determine at least one item holder, from among a plurality of item holders, at which each respective tag identified in the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings is most likely to be currently located, to provide a location of an item, based on the current detection rate for each respective tag and a plurality of initial detection rates associated with a plurality of initial item holder to antenna mappings, and
wherein the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings define associations between select ones of a plurality of tags associated with items to select ones of the plurality of item holders that hold the items, select ones of the plurality of tags to be detected by select ones of the plurality of antennas when in proximity to each other.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating a current detection rate by one or more antennas, from among a plurality of antennas, for each tag identified in a plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings, the current detection rate by the one or more antennas over a pre-set time duration, wherein select ones of a plurality of tags are to be detected by select ones of the plurality of antennas when in proximity to each other and wherein the plurality of tags associated with items to select ones of a plurality of item holders that hold the items;
and
determining at least one item holder, from among the plurality of item holders, at which each respective tag identified in the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings is most likely to be currently located to provide a location of the item, wherein determining the at least one item holder for each tag is based on the current detection rate for each respective tag and a plurality of initial detection rates associated with a plurality of initial item holder to antenna mappings.

An apparatus comprising:

a plurality of antennas distributed within a space;
a plurality of items coupled to respective tags of a plurality of tags, select ones of the plurality of tags to be detected by select ones of the plurality of antennas when in proximity to each other;
a plurality of item holders distributed within the space, select ones of the plurality of item holders to hold select ones of the plurality of items;
and
one or more processors in communication with the plurality of antennas, wherein the one or more processors is to identify ones of the plurality of tags that moved during a specified time duration associated with current tag to antenna mappings, the current tag to antenna mappings define detection of select ones of the plurality of tags by select ones of the plurality of antennas, and wherein the one or more processors is to determine at least one item holder, from among the plurality of item holders, to which each of the identified ones of the plurality of tags that moved is most likely to be current located to provide a location of the respective item.

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One or more computer-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions to cause an apparatus, in response to execution by one or more processors of the apparatus, to:

generate a current detection rate by one or more antennas, from among a plurality of antennas, for each tag identified in a plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings, the current detection rate by the one or more antennas over a pre-set time duration, wherein select ones of a plurality of tags are to be detected by select ones of the plurality of antennas when in proximity to each other and wherein the plurality of tags associated with items to select ones of a plurality of item holders that hold the items;
and
determine at least one item holder, from among the plurality of item holders, at which each respective tag identified in the plurality of filtered current tag to antenna mappings is most likely to be currently located to provide a location of the item, wherein to determine the at least one item holder for each tag is based on the current detection rate for each respective tag and a plurality of initial detection rates associated with a plurality of initial item holder to antenna mappings.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.