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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2009
Pavel Vrba, Plzen, CS;
Filip Macurek, Prague 14-Hostavice, CS;
Vladimir Marik, Prague 5, CS;
Kenwood H. Hall, Hudson, OH (US);
Pavel Tichy, Nymburk, CS;
Pavel Vrba, Plzen, CS;
Filip Macurek, Prague 14-Hostavice, CS;
Vladimir Marik, Prague 5, CS;
Kenwood H. Hall, Hudson, OH (US);
Pavel Tichy, Nymburk, CS;
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
The subject invention relates to systems and methods that distribute electronic data, such as Electronic Product Code (EPC) data, obtained from RFID tags by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and/or servers to agents within an agent-based control system. The systems and methods employ a component that collects, filters, processes, and stores electronic product data. The component collects electronic product data through corresponding reader and/or server interfaces. This data can be filtered to accept particular electronic product data, processed to a format suitable to the agents, and stored. Such storage can include delineating the electronic product data across rows of a table by electronic product code and across columns of the table by various types of data. Upon receiving a subscription and/or request from an agent for electronic product data, the component can obtain and convey the information to the agent.