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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2000
Jay Werb, Newton, MA (US);
Emin Martinian, Medford, MA (US);
Melanie Swiderek, Manchester, NH (US);
Samuel Levy, Newton, MA (US);
Peter Stein, Brookline, MA (US);
RF Technologies, Inc., Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining tag location is disclosed. Tag reference data may be stored, e.g., in the form of a lookup table, as a trained neural network, and so on, and used to determine the location of tags. Readings used to determine tag location and/or preliminary tag locations may be filtered to produce reliable tag location indications. Packages of user configurable parameters can be provided and used for the filtering of the preliminary tag locations. Confidence levels may also be generated for determined tag locations and used, for example, to indicate how well an asset location system can distinguish between different tag locations.