Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ramachandran Venkatesh

Anush Kumar

Abhishek Agarwal

Beysim Sezgin

Balasubramanian Sriram

Janaki Ram Goteti

Jose A Blakeley

Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali Ahmed

Krishnan Gopalan

Conor J Cunningham

Bhuvanesh N Jain

Denis Y Altudov

Balaji Rathakrishnan

Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram

Jayaram Kalyana Sundaram

Peter Alan Carlin

Jun Fang

Eric N Hanson

Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi

David John Nettleton

Jason Todd Hunter

Wei Yu

Ramasubramanian Ramani

Kranthi Kumar Mannem

Himabindu Thota

Padmapriya Aradhyula

Stefano Stefani

Cesar Alejandro Galindo-Legaria

Pablo Castro

Sergey Melnik

Oliver Nicholas Seeliger

Kawarjit Bedi

Bruno H M Denuit

Dragan Tomic

Denis Churin

Blaine J Dockter

Kenneth Puggaard

Thomas Vest

Anil Kumar Prasad

Flemming Gregersen

Alexios Boukouvalas

Vamshidhar G R Reddy

Arunkumar Chacko

Pamela J Scott

Mathieu Henaire

Hongang Zhang

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates configuring at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) device. An RFID network can include at least one device associated with a device group, wherein the device group corresponds to a characteristic. An organizational manager can uniformly configure the at least one device based at least in part upon membership of the device group.

RFID device groups

A standardized mechanism of remote management of mobile devices using Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) is disclosed. An LLRP provider application runs on a server. A remote management application runs on a mobile device. The LLRP provider application and the remote management application communicate using LLRP. The remote management application uses a specific interface, like Device Service Provider Interface (DSPI), to communicate with hardware on the mobile device. The LLRP provider application discovers a mobile device, requests at least one of configuration or metadata information, and receives at least one of configuration or metadata information. The remote management application receives a request for at least one of configuration or metadata information and sends at least one of configuration or metadata information.

Standardized mechanism of remote management of embedded radio modules

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing a device within a radio frequency identification (RFID) network. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. An upgrade component can evaluate at least one device and identify an applicable portion of firmware for the device based on the evaluation, wherein the applicable portion of firmware can be independently deployed to the device.

Standardized mechanism for firmware upgrades of RFID devices

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates utilizing rule-based technology with radio frequency identification (RFID) network. An interface can receive real-time RFID data from a process comprising at least one device collection in the RFID network, wherein a rules engine (RE) component can employ a declarative event policy associated with the RFID network as rules. The RE allows dynamic updates of business logic associated with applications in real-time without the re-start and/or stop the applications. The system and/or method further comprises a vocabulary component that provides terms that defines at least one of the rule, rule condition, and action based at least in part upon an industry specific nomenclature.

Rule-based filtering and alerting

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates receiving data from at least one device. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A batcher component can collect the data based on a start boundary and an end boundary and communicate the batched data to an RFID process.

Support for batching of events, and shredding of batched events in the RFID infrastructure platform

A standardized mechanism of remote management of mobile devices using Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) is disclosed. An LLRP provider application runs on a server. A remote management application runs on a mobile device. The LLRP provider application and the remote management application communicate using LLRP. The remote management application uses Device Service Provider Interface (DSPI) to communicate with hardware on the mobile device. The LLRP provider application discovers a mobile device, requests at least one of configuration or metadata information, and receives at least one of configuration or metadata information. The remote management application receives a request for at least one of configuration or metadata information and sends at least one of configuration or metadata information.

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates implementing an RFID process by providing creation and/or execution of the RFID process as it relates to a provider(s) and the associated devices related to such provider(s). A receiver component can receive information relating to at least one or more providers. An RFID server component can employ the information in connection with providing an RFID process that can be applied generically to a plurality of devices associated with a subset of providers. An RFID engine can process an RFID event including an event processing tree that abstracts a logical entity, wherein the logical entity consists of a logical source can define the RFID process.

RFID server internals design

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates ensuring reliable data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A distribute component can initiate a reliable transaction with the received data to ensure at least one subscribing RFID process utilizes such data.

Support for reliable end to end messaging of tags in an RFID infrastructure

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates employing a security technique to an RFID network. An interface can receive role-based authorization data related to an operating system. A security component can enhance security to at least one of a manipulation of a process and a utilization of a device within the RFID network based at least in part upon role-based authorization data.

Security techniques in the RFID framework

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates verifying data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) business process. A radio frequency identification (RFID) business process can include at least one component that can receive an event from a logical source. A strong typing module can employ strong typing of the component to define at least one of an event type for the component, an input event type for the component, or an output event type for the component.

Strong typing of components in RFID business processes

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates implementing a binding between a radio frequency identification (RFID) process and a device. An RFID process can receive a tag read event from a device and make the tag read event available for at least one high level application. A binding engine can bind the RFID process to the device while decoupling a design time activity and a deployment time activity associated with the RFID process. In addition, the binding engine can include at least one of a device mapping component that employs a device binding; and a component configuration module that employs a component binding.

RFID business process-decoupling of design and deployment time activities

Systems and methodologies that facilitate data handling among participants with mismatched schema sets of an extensible data model, via employing a versioning component. The versioning component can identify and separate the mismatched and matched data, and direct the mismatched portion to a bit bucket component. The bit bucket component can further persistently store the mismatched data, to enable interaction among participants with mismatched data types. The data can be re-integrated to ensure that round trip data is available to the next participant.

Version tolerant serialization

A computer-implemented method is disclosed for encouraging an accurate chronological organization of radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data gathered from distributed servers. The method includes limiting the processing of RFID tag data based at least in part on the operational status of a plurality of sources of RFID tag data.

Supporting the accurate chronological organization of RFID tag data from distributed sources

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing communication channels within a radio frequency identification (RFID) infrastructure. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that can receive data from a tag. A mixed mode component can employ a synchronous command and an asynchronous event processing with the device.

Synchronous command model for RFID-enabling applications

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