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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Krishnan Gopalan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kalyan Chakravarthy Sonnathi, Hyderabad, IN;
Bhuvanesh N. Jain, Tamil Nadu, IN;
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that creates, manages, or maintains multiple device versions in a network of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices. The system can include components that detect whether a device has joined the network and based at least in part on such indication creates a device profile the first time that the device is detected, establishes a version trail containing configuration settings specific to the detected device, and thereafter builds and maintains the version trail when the device joins and/or leaves the network.