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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2006
Arthur G. Howarth, Orleans, CA;
Roland Saville, Oakland Park, FL (US);
Prasad Miriyala, Union City, CA (US);
Arthur G. Howarth, Orleans, CA;
Roland Saville, Oakland Park, FL (US);
Prasad Miriyala, Union City, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Some implementations of the invention involve forming 'logical' or 'virtual' devices by aggregating a plurality of physical devices. The physical devices may be, for example, controllers, RFID readers and/or storage devices. Some logical devices comprise components of physical devices, such as individual antennas from a plurality of RFID readers. The physical devices may be located near one another or may be distributed over a wide geographical area. Logical device definitions can also be concatenated to include devices having two or more levels of logical device definitions. A single logical device grouping may include physical devices at differing levels of a network hierarchy.