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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
May. 02, 2006
Applicant:
Clifton W. Wood, Jr., Boise, ID (US);
Inventor:
Clifton W. Wood, Jr., Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Keystone Technology Solutions, LLC, Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/413 (2006.01); H04Q 5/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
RFID tags are identified. In one embodiment, RFID tags may be chosen to respond to an interrogator in accordance with an arbitration scheme. According to one arbitration scheme, each chosen tag may randomly pick a slot value. The interrogator may indicate that the number of slot values is to be adjusted. Each chosen tag may respond to the interrogator with a random number.