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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Kenwood H. Hall, Hudson, OH (US);
Vivek R. Bapat, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Sujeet Chand, Brookfield, WI (US);
Richard A. Morse, Hudson, OH (US);
Joseph P. Owen, Jr., Elm Grove, WI (US);
Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Thompson, OH (US);
Andreas Somogyi, Sagamore Hills, OH (US);
Kenneth A. Tinnell, Loveland, OH (US);
Kenwood H. Hall, Hudson, OH (US);
Vivek R. Bapat, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Sujeet Chand, Brookfield, WI (US);
Richard A. Morse, Hudson, OH (US);
Joseph P. Owen, Jr., Elm Grove, WI (US);
Arthur P. Pietrzyk, Thompson, OH (US);
Andreas Somogyi, Sagamore Hills, OH (US);
Kenneth A. Tinnell, Loveland, OH (US);
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc., Mayfield Heights, OH (US);
Abstract
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in a data management scheme that combines both distributed as well as a hierarchical (object-oriented) data management structure. The hierarchical databases will store data records such that each or selected entities of the record will be associated with a pointer that can be written into an RFID tag of an item as the item progresses through manufacturing, production, transportation, and consumer user, for example. Thereafter, once the RFID tag is read, the pointer information can be processed to directly access the data in the database associated with the pointer.