Symbol Technologies, LLC

Anne Schuessler

Frederick Schuessler

An RFID tag is capable of storing data, receiving a signal from a reader, determining a response taking into account the tag mode and the data, and transmitting a response to the reader. The data includes a first plurality of bits and a second plurality of bits. The tag mode may be set by a current or a prior command by the reader. Depending on the tag mode, the response may be complete, or the second plurality of bits may be truncated, compressed, or encrypted. In an aspect of the invention, the response includes an implicit indication of whether the response is complete, truncated, encrypted, or compressed. In another aspect of the invention, a command from the reader indicates how many bits should be truncated, compressed, or encrypted.

Truncation, compression, and encryption of RFID tag communications

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for RFID tags, RFID readers, communications algorithms, and RFID-related applications are described herein. In an aspect of the invention, an RFID tag is capable of storing data, receiving a signal from a reader, determining a response taking into account the tag mode and the data, and transmitting a response to the reader. The data includes a first plurality of bits and a second plurality of bits. The tag mode may be set by a current or a prior command by the reader. Depending on the tag mode, the response may be complete, or the second plurality of bits may be truncated, compressed, or encrypted. In an aspect of the invention, the response includes an implicit indication of whether the response is complete, truncated, encrypted, or compressed. In another aspect of the invention, a command from the reader indicates how many bits should be truncated, compressed, or encrypted.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for reconstitution of data for failed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are described. The tag's information is segmented, optionally compressed, and encoded into a plurality of optical representations. Alternatively, or in addition, a portion or all of the tag's information is stored in a non-optical format. Upon failure of a tag read for any reason (e.g., tag failure, reader failure, operator error, environmental reasons, etc.), the data is reconstituted from the optical representations. Alternatively, or in addition, the reconstitution includes incorporating the information stored in a non-optical format.

Apparatus and methods for optical representations of radio frequency identification tag information

A method of producing a digital image of a machine readable optical code symbol having areas of different spectral characteristics and which is printable on differing printers having differing dot pitches. A desired nominal unit dimension is selected for each area of the optical code symbol; a resulting nominal unit dimension for each area is defined as a function of the dot pitch of a target printer; and a vector representation of the optical code symbol is provided using the resulting nominal unit dimension.

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