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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:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);
Bradley Childs, Austin, TX (US);
Joann Huffman, Austin, TX (US);
Stewart J. Hyman, Ontario, 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, Ontario, CA;
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen J. Watt, Leander, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and media to improve polling accuracy in RFID systems are 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. Other embodiments involve machine-accessible mediums with instructions to receive information from the tag reader, analyze the information with baseline and current inventories of other areas, and store identification information for the tag in a current inventory database if the information is absent from the baseline and current inventories.