Method and system for generating an electronic product identification report in an embedded device

A system comprising:

• a client configured to generate a request for an electronic product identification (EPID) report;
• and
• an embedded device comprising
• a web interface configured to:
• receive the request, and
• send the request to a request handling service;
• the request handling service, configured to deploy at least one event handling component based on the request,
• the at least one event handling component configured to:
• generate an EPID event cycle based on an EPID read cycle, according to an event cycle boundary condition,
• generate the EPID report based on the EPID event cycle, and transmit the EPID report to the client;
• and
• a reader adapter configured to:
• obtain the EPID read cycle, and
• transmit the EPID read cycle to the at least one event handling component.

A computer readable medium comprising executable instructions for generating an electronic product identification (EPID) report by:

• broadcasting availability of an embedded device to obtain an external management message, wherein the external management message is transmitted by a management console based on the broadcasted availability;
• obtaining the external management message, by the embedded device;
• receiving a request for the EPID report, by a web interface in the embedded device, wherein the request conforms to Application Level Events (ALE) specification;
• sending the request to a request handling service in the embedded device,
• deploying at least one event handling component in the embedded device, by the request handling service;
• obtaining an EPID read cycle comprising (RFID) data, by a reader adapter in the embedded device;
• generating an EPID event cycle based on the EPID read cycle, according to an event cycle boundary condition, wherein the event cycle boundary condition comprises a condition selected from a group consisting of a time interval grouping, an elapsed time period, an external event trigger, and only detecting repeated EPIDs in a specified time period;
• generating the EPID report based on the EPID event cycle, by the at least one event handling component;
• and
• transmitting the EPID report to a client,
• wherein at least one selected from a group consisting of generating the EPID event cycle, generating the EPID report, and transmitting the EPID report is performed based on the external management message.