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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2008
Sanjay Sarma, Belmont, MA (US);
Daniel W. Engels, Lincoln, MA (US);
Erik L. Nygren, Somerville, MA (US);
Joseph T. Foley, Cambridge, MA (US);
David L. Brock, Natick, MA (US);
Kai-yeung Sai, Hong Kong, HK;
Sanjay Sarma, Belmont, MA (US);
Daniel W. Engels, Lincoln, MA (US);
Erik L. Nygren, Somerville, MA (US);
Joseph T. Foley, Cambridge, MA (US);
David L. Brock, Natick, MA (US);
Kai-Yeung Sai, Hong Kong, HK;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An object name system (ONS) for locating one or more servers associated with an Electronic Product Code (EPC) is described. The system utilizes translation format strings to translate an EPC to an EPC domain prefix. The ONS server matches the EPC number to the address of a second server which has extensive information about the product. The second server recognizes the incoming EPC's as belonging to a particular object or service.