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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2025
T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);
Lyle T. Bertz, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Robert K. Butler, Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A radio frequency identity (RFID) tag reader. The reader comprises a radio transceiver; a non-transitory memory; a processor coupled to the radio transceiver and to the non-transitory memory; and an RFID tag reader application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor, the application sends a message via the radio transceiver to a plurality of RFID tags indicating a first range of transmission time slots and indicating a second range of quiescent transmission time slots disposed within the range of transmission time slots, receives messages via the radio transceiver from the plurality of RFID tags during time slots that are outside the sub-range of quiescent transmission time slots, wherein the messages comprise information associated with items to which the plurality of RFID tags are affixed to, and transmits the information received from the plurality of RFID tags during the quiescent time slots.