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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2014
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property Ii, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
Timothy Cunningham, Dedham, MA (US);
Robert R. Miller, II, Convent Station, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G06K 17/00 (2006.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 17/0022 (2013.01); H04B 5/0062 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present method enables an RFID repeater to be used in conjunction with an RFID tag to allow data in the RFID tag to be read using wireless packet switched technologies. For example, the present method enables an RFID repeater to be coupled with an RFID tag. The RFID repeater reads and records the data from the RFID tag and then transmits the retrieved data from the RFID tag over a wireless packet network.