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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 06, 2009
Chee Hoe Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ping Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph R. Goodearly, Livermore, CA (US);
Chee Hoe Chu, San Jose, CA (US);
Ping Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph R. Goodearly, Livermore, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise: a mobile RFID reader adapted to receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a plurality of RFID tags, wherein each RF signal represents a tag identifier associated with the respective RFID tag, and wherein the RFID tags include a plurality of asset tags and a plurality of location tags, wherein each of the asset tags is associated with a respective one of a plurality of assets, and wherein each of the location tags is associated with a respective one of a plurality of first locations; and an association module adapted to generate first associations between each of the assets and one or more of the first locations based on the tag identifiers.