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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2003
Applicants:
Bryan Eric Aupperle, Cary, NC (US);
James Merwin Mathewson, Ii, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Inventors:
Bryan Eric Aupperle, Cary, NC (US);
James Merwin Mathewson, II, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A personal articles tracking system, method and apparatus. In the system of the invention, a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader can be coupled to a tracking processor. A data store further can be configured to store tag data from corresponding RFID tags. Finally, an alert can be programmed to activate when the tracking processor no longer can sense within range of the RFID reader an RFID tag having corresponding tag data stored in the data store.