Managing a sphere of wireless tags
AssigneePixie Technology Inc.
InventorsAmir Bassan-Eskenazi, Naftaly Sharir, Ofer Friedman, Gili Elias, Giora Sussman, Eran Aharonson
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Abstract
A method for managing a sphere of wireless tags, the method comprises programming, by a wireless reader, a group of wireless tags to belong to the sphere of wireless tags; sending by the wireless reader sphere beacons aimed to the wireless tags of the sphere; detecting a loss of a wireless tag of the sphere if the wireless tag did not respond to a predetermined number of sphere beacons; and responding to the detecting of the loss of the wireless tag.
Claims16
A method for managing a sphere of wireless tags, comprising the steps of:
- programming, by a wireless reader, a group of wireless tags to belong to the sphere of wireless tags;
- programming, by the wireless reader, each wireless tag of the sphere to increase a wireless tag reception window for detecting a sphere beacon after the wireless tag failed to receive a predefined number of sphere beacons;
- sending, by the wireless reader, sphere beacons aimed to the wireless tags of the sphere;
- detecting a loss of a wireless tag of the sphere if the wireless tag did not respond to a predetermined number of sphere beacons;
- and
- responding to the detecting of the loss of the wireless tag.
A wireless reader for managing a sphere of wireless tags, comprising:
- a controller that is arranged to program a group of wireless tags to belong to the sphere of wireless tags;
- a wireless transceiver that is arranged to:
- send sphere beacons aimed to the wireless tags of the sphere;
- detect a loss of a wireless tag of the sphere if the wireless tag did not respond to a predetermined number of sphere beacons;
- wherein the wireless reader is arranged to respond to the detecting of the loss of the wireless tag;
- and wherein the wireless reader is arranged to program each wireless tag of the sphere to increase a wireless tag reception window for detecting a sphere beacon after the wireless tag failed to receive a predefined number of sphere beacons.
A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that when executed by a wireless reader cause the wireless reader to execute the stages of:
- programming a group of wireless tags to belong to a sphere of wireless tags;
- programming each wireless tag of the sphere to increase a wireless tag reception window for detecting a sphere beacon after the wireless tag failed to receive a predefined number of sphere beacon;
- sending sphere beacons aimed to the wireless tags of the sphere;
- detecting a loss of a wireless tag of the sphere if the wireless tag did not respond to a predetermined number of sphere beacons;
- and
- responding to the detecting of the loss of the wireless tag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.