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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2007
Michael S. Sullivan, Northborough, MA (US);
Jamshed H. Dubash, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Michael S. Sullivan, Northborough, MA (US);
Jamshed H. Dubash, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
The Gillette Company, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, or computer program products may collect information about the performance of individual RFID tags. In particular, signal strength and/or signal sensitivity of individual RFID tags may be measured and the resulting performance information may be stored in a data repository. In the data repository, the performance information for an individual tag may be associated with an identifier that is uniquely associated with the tag. In one exemplary embodiment, the performance information may be used by an on-line system configured to automatically determine the performance margin with which RFID tags are being read in an RFID system, or to automatically tune the RFID system to achieve a desired performance margin.