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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2006
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley Childs, Austin, TX (US);
Joann Huffman, Austin, TX (US);
Stewart J. Hyman, Richmond Hill, CA;
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen J. Watt, Leander, TX (US);
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley Childs, Austin, TX (US);
Joann Huffman, Austin, TX (US);
Stewart J. Hyman, Richmond Hill, CA;
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen J. Watt, Leander, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method to improve polling accuracy in RFID systems is disclosed. Embodiments comprise receiving information from one or more tags by a tag reader, comparing the information from the tags to other information, and adding the tag to an inventory if the tag does not exist in the other information. While some embodiments compare the tag information from the tags to baseline inventories for other areas, some embodiments compare it to current inventories for the other areas or compare it to a combination of both inventories. Some embodiments involve polling RFID tags in storage containers.