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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Kirkland, WA (US);
Charles Shearer Dorner, Seattle, WA (US);
William R. Hazlewood, Seattle, WA (US);
Wesley Scott Lauka, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for making ordinary objects network-enabled interfaces. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag may be fixed or detachably attached to an item capable of being manipulated by a person to obtain information about the item or to cause a performance of a task associated with the item. The RFID tag may include a capacitive touch interface that, when manipulated by a person, causes the RFID tag to emit an identifier associated with a corresponding item. A receiver, having the identifier and an instruction from a person, may communicate with a remote computing device to process the instruction and to generate a response to the instruction.