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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Rawlinson, Melbourne, AU;

Xing Zhi Sun, Beijing, CN;

Ziyuan Wang, Malvern East, AU;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/33 (2018.01); H04W 4/30 (2018.01); G06K 19/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/33 (2018.02); G06K 19/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/04 (2013.01); H04W 4/30 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02);
Abstract

A mobile unit in a housing facility for mobile units may be tracked by activating a first reading device at a first location of the housing facility upon detecting a first mobile unit arriving at or departing from the first location, wherein the first mobile unit has a first tag having an identification code (ID) readable by the first reading device. A set of readings may be performed by the first reading device to read a set of tag IDs during a time interval. Upon an ending of the time interval, tag IDs, in the set of tag IDs, that correspond to the first tag ID are identified based on the set of readings. A record is updated to associate the first tag ID with the first location.


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