Systems and methods for providing a security tag with synchronized display
AssigneeSensormatic Electronics Corporation
InventorsAdam S. Bergman, Mohammad Mohiuddin
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Abstract
Systems and methods for operating a Security Tag (“ST”) coupled to an item. The methods comprise: storing first Item Related Information (“IRI”) is a datastore of ST that is associated with an output device and second IRI in an integrated RFID element of ST; receiving third IRI at a microcontroller of ST; performing comparison operations by the microcontroller to compare the third IRI with the first and/or second IRI; using the third IRI to write over the first and/or second IRI based on results of the comparison operations; and synchronizing advertised information and register information for the item by outputting the third IRI from the output device and the integrated RFID element.
Claims20
A method for operating a security tag coupled to an item, comprising:
- storing first item related information is a datastore of the security tag that is associated with an output device and second item related information in an integrated Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) element of the security tag;
- receiving third item related information at a microcontroller of the security tag;
- performing comparison operations by the microcontroller to compare the third item related information with at least one of the first item related information and the second item related information;
- using the third item related information to write over at least one of the first item related information and the second item related information based on results of the comparison operations;
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- synchronizing advertised information and register information for the item by outputting the third item related information from the output device and the integrated RFID element.
A security tag, comprising:
- an output device configured to output advertised information for an item;
- a datastore storing first item related information that is to be output from the output device as the advertised information;
- an integrated Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) element having second item related information stored therein;
- a microcontroller configured to
- receive third item related information,
- perform comparison operations to compare the third item related information with at least one of the first item related information and the second item related information,
- use the third item related information to cause at least one of the first item related information and the second item related information to be written over based on results of the comparison operations, and
- synchronize the advertised information and register information for the item by causing the third item related information to be output from the output device and the integrated RFID element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.