Motorola Corporation

Symbol Technologies, LLC

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

Robert Perri

Timothy J Collins

Richard Stanley Rachwalski

Daniel Roman Gamota

Ajay Malik

Krishna D Jonnalagadda

Krishna Kalyanasundaram

Andrew Merritt Khan

Michael K Bullock

Described are integrated active tags in a mobile device. The mobile device may include (a) a transceiver broadcasting a first location beacon when a capacity of a battery of the mobile device is above a predetermined threshold; and (b) a tag broadcasting a second location beacon when the capacity of the battery of the mobile device is below the predetermined threshold.

Integrated active tags in mobile devices

A method and apparatus are described for facilitation of radio frequency (RF) communication between a radio frequency identification (RFID) device and RFID tags for a conveyer system. The RFID device is positioned in proximity of the conveyor system. At least one conductive surface is coupled to the RFID device. The conveyer system transports articles, at least one which has one or more associated RFID tags. The conveyer system is operated such that the articles are brought in contact with the at least one conductive surface. The RFID device, the at least one conductive surface and one or more of the associated RFID tags are capacitively coupled allowing RF signals to be communicated between RFID device and the one or more associated RFID tags. This enables data to be electronically read from the one or more associated RFID tags.

Method and apparatus for tracking items on a conveyer using capacitive RFID

A tray () comprises electrically conductive material and has at least one hand-graspable fixture (). This hand-graspable fixture comprises an electrical conductor () disposed in a location that is likely to be operably interacted with by a human who grasps the hand-graspable fixture. A capacitively-coupled RFID tag is then disposed on the hand-graspable fixture with a first antenna plate () being electrically coupled to the tray and a second antenna plate () that electrically couples to the electrical conductor. A corresponding tray receiving compartment () has a front lip () over which the tray must pass and upon which the tray will rest when properly disposed within the tray receiving compartment. One or more capacitively-coupled RFID tag reader antennas () are disposed proximal to the front lip. These antennas may be positioned to facilitate reading the capacitively-coupled RFID tag when the tray is properly disposed within the tray receiving compartment.

Radio frequency identification tag based tray and tray receiving method and apparatus

Merchandising and marketing data collection systems () collect data on shopper's () interaction with merchandise samples (), page store personnel, output promotional vouchers and use the merchandise samples to access information about the capabilities of the merchandise being sold.

Method and apparatus for marketing retail goods

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