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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2003
Christopher Brian Marshall, Haywards Heath, GB;
Paul John Rankin, Horley, GB;
Alan James Davie, East Grinstead, GB;
Christopher Brian Marshall, Haywards Heath, GB;
Paul John Rankin, Horley, GB;
Alan James Davie, East Grinstead, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An interactive system in which information read from two or more tags (or) jointly determines a process to be carried out. One of the tags may identify a user by for example his/her store loyalty card number or by a personal identifying tag (or card) in a cordless RF terminal and the other of the tags may be a RF-ID tag storing details of an action to be performed such as the number of credit points to be given to the loyalty card in response to a transaction or provide promotional information to the user. The process may comprise issuing a command to an action server () to provide, or instruct the sending of, output information to a user, by for example over a radio link to a cellular telephone apparatus () or PDA, or displayed to the user on a video display unit ().