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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2010
Michael Mercier, Charlotte, NC (US);
James Gordon Wyatt, Jr., Waxhaw, NC (US);
Lee H. Eckert, Waxhaw, NC (US);
Gary Mark Shafer, Charlotte, CA (US);
Michael Mercier, Charlotte, NC (US);
James Gordon Wyatt, Jr., Waxhaw, NC (US);
Lee H. Eckert, Waxhaw, NC (US);
Gary Mark Shafer, Charlotte, CA (US);
Checkpoint Systems, Inc., Thorofare, NJ (US);
Abstract
Exemplary systems, methods and other means for providing a key device that may be used with a monitoring system are discussed herein. The key device may be configured to communicate with one or more other devices, silence an alarm, commission a tag, decommission a tag, unlock a tag from an item, among other things. The key device may include rules that permit particular functionality based on, for example, time and/or location.