| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 20080218316 | RFID Tag Detection And Re-Personalization - Systems, methods and computer program products for detecting and re-personalizing are provided herein. In an embodiment, the invention operates by obtaining an ID (i.e., an identification, such as a Dynamic Unique Identifier) from a RFID tag, generating a new ID, and writing the new ID to the RFID tag. The ID read from the tag is used to lookup a subject's record in a database. If the write of the new ID to the tag is verified, then database changes are committed to link the new ID to the subject. In an alternative embodiment, the invention operates by obtaining data from a memory of a RFID tag, wherein the memory has a first partition and a second partition, generating a new ID, and writing the new ID to either of the first partition or the second partition of the RFID tag. If such write is verified, then the new ID is written to the other partition of the RFID tag. The data from the tag is used to lookup a subject's record in a database. If either write to the first partition or second partition is verified, then database changes are committed to link the new ID to the subject. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080297326 | Low Cost RFID Tag Security And Privacy System And Method - A method for provisioning security for an RFID tag. Initially, a random new tag ID is generated, and a new master key is generated based on an existing master key. Encrypted user data to be placed on the tag is generated utilizing the new tag ID as an IV and the new master key as input to an encryption algorithm. The new tag ID and the encrypted user data are then written to the tag. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090096589 | PACKAGING A SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER - Embodiments embed at least one Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag into the mold. The mold may comprise a cavity adapted to the geometrical form of the RFID tag. In some embodiments, the cavity is marginally bigger than the RFID tag. In many embodiments, the cavity with the embedded the RFID tag is covered by glue. Thus, the mold, the RFID tag and the glue may be suitable for temperatures up to, e.g., 400° C. Further the mold and the glue may be resistant to concentrated sulfuric acid and formic acid. The serial number of the mold may be stored in the RFID tag. The RFID tag may detect characteristic data during the transfer of the solder from the mold to the wafer. In one embodiment, the RFID tag may detect the temperature. In another embodiment, a plurality of RFID tags may detect various temperatures for controlling the packaging process. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090102615 | Portable-terminal holder and radio communication system - A portable-terminal holder for holding a portable terminal that has a rechargeable battery and a first radio communication device is constituted by a base and c communication module. The base has a portion on which the portable terminal is placed, and a charging device for charging the rechargeable battery of the portable terminal while said portable terminal is placed on the portion. The communication module has a second radio communication device communicating with the first radio communication device for wireless data transmission between the portable terminal and the communication module, and a cable communication device communicating with an external host computer for cable data transmission between the host computer and the communication module. The communication module is configured to be detachable from the base. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090174530 | WIRELESS PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND PAIRING METHOD APPLIED THERETO - A wireless presentation system includes a first wireless input element, a second wireless input element and a wireless receiving and processing host. A pairing method for use in the wireless presentation system includes the following steps. The wireless receiving and processing host generates a first identification code, and if the first wireless input element is present, issues the first identification code to the first wireless input element for storage, so that a pairing relation therebetween is established by the first identification code. The wireless receiving and processing host automatically generates a second identification code after the first identification code is issued, and if the second wireless input element is present, issues the second identification code to the second wireless input element for storage, so that the pairing relation therebetween is established by the second identification code. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090174531 | Apparatus for communicating with RFID tag, processing device for communication with RFID tag, RFID tag, and RFID tag communication system - There are provided an antenna of an apparatus for producing RFID label configured to transmit/receive information via radio communication with a RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information, a control circuit of the apparatus for producing RFID label configured to create file additional information relating to an electronic file to be processed and to create tag access information to the IC circuit part, and a radio frequency circuit configured to transmit at least the file additional information and the tag access information to the RFID circuit element via the antenna and to write the information in the IC circuit part. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090184806 | UHF TIMING SYSTEM FOR PARTICIPATORY ATHLETIC EVENTS - A participatory athletic event timing system based on backscattering modulation in the UHF band and including wirelessly encoding writable data tags with participant's bib numbers or a calculated derivative thereof for timing participants in a participative athletic event, and attaching the data tags to the participant's bibs for distribution of the bibs and data tags to participants so as to eliminate the need for matching data tags with bibs and maintaining the sequenced order of the matched data tags and bibs. In a preferred embodiment, when participants register for the event, they are assigned an ID number and a bib printed with that number and having attached to the bib one or more data tag encoded in the tags memory the ID number or a calculated derivative thereof. Before the start of the event, the athlete pulls the data tag from the bib and attaches it to their shoe. Antennas suitably designed and adapted for use with the data tags in participative athletic events are used to communicate with the data tags. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090201136 | MERCHANDISE SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - A merchandise sales data processing apparatus including a tag reader section that reads information from a memory of a radio tag processes sales data of merchandise attached with the radio tag based on the information read from the memory of the radio tag. Besides, the apparatus generates a password for restricting access to the memory of the radio tag. Then, the apparatus writes the generated password into the radio tag. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090243814 | RFID tag identification information management system - In a RFID tag information system having a plurality of service servers, a single unified server, an operation terminal, an apparatus for producing RFID tags, and a portable terminal, the unified server has a common database storing a list of unissued tag IDs allocatable to an unproduced RFID tag and further storing the tag ID allocated to the produced RFID tag and registration data corresponding to the tag ID, and the apparatus for producing RFID tags writes the tag ID obtained through an apparatus antenna for radio communication with a RFID circuit element provided at a tag tape, the service server allocated by the unified server, and the operation terminal in an IC circuit part through the apparatus antenna. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090315686 | RFID TAG USING ENCRYPTED VALUE - A permanent ID can be read off of an RFID chip of an RFID tag. The permanent ID can be combined with a seed value to form a combined value. The combined value can be encrypted to form an encrypted value. This encrypted value can be stored on the RFID chip. Later, the RFID tag can be validated using the encryption value. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100026470 | FUSING RFID AND VISION FOR SURFACE OBJECT TRACKING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates detecting and identifying objects within surface computing. An interface component can receive at least one surface input, the surface input relates to at least one of an object, a gesture, or a user. A surface detection component can detect a location of the surface input utilizing a computer vision-based sensing technique. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag can transmit a portion of RFID data, wherein the RFID tag is associated with the surface input. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) fusion component can utilize the portion of RFID data to identify at least one of a source of the surface input or a portion of data to associate to the surface input. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100052869 | COMBINATION FULL-DUPLEX AND HALF-DUPLEX ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION TAG - Transponders are disclosed that are configurable to operate in an HDX mode and/or an FDX-B mode and that use a switchable load impedance across the transponders' resonant antenna circuit to induce amplitude and/or frequency modulation. An RF level detection circuit determines when the instantaneous activation signal strength is sufficient to support monoplex, multiplex, and diplex operation. A non-volatile memory stores identification data coded in HDX and FDX-B formats. One embodiment of the invention includes an inductive antenna including two terminals connected to tag circuitry, where the inductive antenna forms a resonant antenna circuit tuned to resonate at the frequency of the activation signal. In addition, the tag circuitry includes a non-volatile memory, the tag circuitry and the resonant antenna circuitry are configurable as an oscillator, the tag circuitry is configured to be powered by electric current induced in the resonant antenna circuit by the activation signal, the tag circuitry includes at least one switchable load impedance connected across the antenna resonant circuit, the tag circuitry is configurable to amplitude modulate the activation signal appearing at the resonant antenna circuit terminals using a switchable load impedance, and the tag circuitry is configurable to frequency shift key modulate the oscillator signal appearing at the resonant antenna circuit terminals using a switchable load impedance. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100141405 | RADIO TAG READING DEVICE AND RADIO TAG RECOGNITION METHOD USING THE DEVICE - A radio tag reading device has a target tag storage unit, a non-target storage unit, and an antenna. The target tag storage unit stores the tag data of any radio tag held in a section from which to read data. The non-target storage unit stores at least the identification data of any radio tag existing outside sections and sections that surround the section. The target tag storage unit stores all tag data read from radio tags via the antenna, except the tag data containing the identification data stored in the non-target tag storage unit. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100201498 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ASSOCIATING A BIOMETRIC REFERENCE TEMPLATE WITH A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG - A system, method and program product for associating a biometric reference template with a RFID tag embedded in or attached to a physical object. The method includes coupling a RFID tag having a unique tag identifier to a physical object to be associated with an individual, providing a reference template having a unique reference template identifier that uniquely identifies biometric data pertaining to the individual and forming an association between the reference template and the tag, where the association provides a relationship, including a relationship type, between the object and the individual. In an embodiment, the forming step includes creating a biometric attribute in the tag for identifying the template identifier for the reference template or creating a tag attribute in the reference template, where the biometric attribute created in the tag and the tag attribute in the biometric application form an association between the object and the reference template. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100214081 | UNIDIRECTIONAL ACTIVE ELECTRONIC TAG AND METHOD FOR SETTING PARAMETERS THEREOF - A unidirectional active electronic tag ( | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100238002 | Active/Passive RFID Transponder Control Function - Devices, systems, processes, and articles of manufacture are provided herein. These may include an RFID transponder having a microprocessor, nonvolatile memory, a battery, and an antenna, wherein the microprocessor is configured to operate in a passive mode and a battery operated mode, and wherein, when in the passive mode only a portion of the microprocessor may be powered by energy received from an RFID reader interrogating the RFID transponder. The RFID transponder may further include MEMS sensors coupled to the microprocessor and the microprocessor may be further configured to add physical data, instructions, or a unique identify of the RFID transponder to the nonvolatile memory. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100245058 | PRINTING DEVICE - A printing device capable of detecting an error type, that is, at which step in a printing process an error has occurred and capable of performing a simplified procedure for identifying the cause of the error. The printing device includes a reader/writer for writing information into an RFID tag and for detecting errors at a plurality of steps in a procedure for writing the information into the RFID tag and a ROM for storing each of the error patterns at respective steps at which errors have been detected by the reader/writer. When an error is detected by the reader/writer, a control unit reads, from the ROM, one of the error patterns corresponding to a step at which the error has been detected and prints the detected error on an RFID label. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100277290 | POST SLEEVE ASSEMBLY - A post sleeve provides a substantially permanent base for supporting a post for a fence or sign, and from which one post can be removed and replaced with another post. The sleeve includes a concrete body that is poured on site, using a sleeve core prepositioned in the post hole, and around which wet concrete is poured. After the concrete is cured, the core is removed, leaving a post sleeve cavity configured to receive a post. The core can be rigid, or can include a flexible shell and stiffener. A preformed post sleeve top can be attached to the sleeve core and positioned therewith in the post hole, to become a permanent part of the post sleeve, once the concrete cures. A drain is attached to the core, and remains in the sleeve when the core is removed, and can be a percolation chamber, or passage extending below the sleeve. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110063093 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SERIALIZATION OF DEVICES - A serialization service module is provided for configuring an asset management system to provide a secure means of generating, assigning to chips (or other electronic objects or devices), and tracking unique serial numbers. To provide this service, a controller is used to define a product model, then to define one or more serialization schemas to be bound to each product model. Each serialization schema contains a range of serial numbers for a particular product. The serial number schemas are sent over a secure, encrypted connection to appliances at the manufacturer's location. Agents can then request serial number values by product name. The serial numbers are generated by the appliance, metered, and provided to the agents. The serial numbers are then injected sequentially into each die in a chip manufacturing process using the agent. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110095872 | MANIFEST INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT VIA RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to assuring manifest integrity for a shipping container of objects and provide a method, system and computer program product for manifest integrity management via radio frequency identification (RFID). In an embodiment of the invention, a manifest integrity management method can include scanning different RFID tags affixed to different objects for placement in a container. The method also can include determining both common data for all of the different RFID tags, and unique data for each of the different RFID tags. Finally, the method can include encoding an RFID tag for the container with an entry for the common data for the different RFID tags, and each unique data for each of the different RFID tags. In this way, a manifest can be created for the objects in the container. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20120013448 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED RFID INSTRUMENT SECURITY - A system and method for using an RFID read/write device to secure an RFID-operable instrument or an RF communication is provided. The invention includes security databases in communication with a processor for storing and communicating security protocols to the RFID read/write device. The invention includes a method for restricting the unauthorized use of an RFID read/write device. The invention includes a subscription service for communicating user credentials to a certificate authority to obtain a counter security protocol. The invention also includes decrypting information stored on an RF-operable device or transmitted via radio-frequency using counter security protocols. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120212331 | Systems and Methods for Secure Supply Chain Management and Inventory Control - Systems for encoding and reading RFID tags on a collection of items are shown. One embodiment of the invention includes a plurality of items, where each item possesses an item identifier string, and a plurality of RFID tags, where an RFID tag is affixed to each of the items and each RFID tag is encoded with a code word element generated using at least all of the item identifier strings. In many embodiments, the collection is a plurality of goods contained within a case, pallet, container or storage area. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20130241713 | Method and Read/Write Device for Interchanging Data Between a Wirelessly Accessible Data Memory and an Industrial Automation Component - A method and a read/write device for addressing at least one wirelessly accessible data memory in an arrangement having a read/write device for the at least one data memory and an industrial automation component, wherein the data memory is addressed, during radio-based data interchange between the data memory and the read/write device, using a first identification number of the data memory. The read/write device assigns a second identification number to the first identification number of the data memory, and the second identification number is used to identify the data memory in the event of data interchange between the read/write device and the automation component based on this data memory. As a result, the automation component can use shortened identification numbers, and there is still unique addressing between the automation component and the wirelessly accessible data memory. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140043148 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS INFORMATION ACCESS THEREOF - A three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) and wireless information access methods thereof are provided. The proposed 3DIC includes a semiconductor structure, and a wireless power device (WPD) formed on the semiconductor structure for wirelessly receiving a power for operating a function selected from a group consisting of probing the semiconductor structure, testing the semiconductor structure and accessing a first information from the semiconductor structure. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140049380 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY USING A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICE - A method for obtaining an X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography. A memory is affixed to a surface of the plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and is in wireless communication with a computer. A first scan date is stored in the affixed memory. Obtaining the X-ray image uses steps of storing at least a job identifier and a scan status for the plate in the affixed memory; acquiring image data from a scan of the plate following exposure to X-rays, acquiring at least the job identifier from the affixed memory, and associating the acquired image data with the acquired job identifier; incrementing a scan count value and updating the scan status in the affixed memory; erasing image content from the plate; and storing the acquired image data in a second, computer-accessible memory according to the acquired job identifier. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140191852 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PHOSPHOR PLATE IDENTIFICATION IN COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY - A method for obtaining an intra-oral X-ray image of a subject on a flexible information carrier plate for computed radiography affixes a memory to a surface of the information carrier plate, wherein the affixed memory stores information about the plate and wherein the affixed memory is in wireless communication with a computer, stores at least a first scan date in the affixed memory, exposes the subject and obtains the intra-oral X-ray image of the subject using steps of: (i) storing identification data about the subject and about the image exposed in the affixed memory; (ii) acquiring image data from a scan of the flexible information carrier plate following exposure to X-rays, acquiring at least the stored identification data from the affixed memory, and associating the acquired image data with the acquired identification data; (iii) erasing image content from the flexible information carrier plate; and (iv) storing the acquired image data in a second, computer-accessible memory according to the acquired identification data. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140292499 | GROUPING TRANSPONDERS - Methods and systems of processing transponder signals received from transponders to identify the transponders are provided. A first signal including a first code and a first identifier may be received from a first transponder. The first identifier is written to the first transponder by an RFID writer when the first transponder is placed proximate to the RFID writer, and the first identifier is used to associate transponders with a first user. A second signal including a second code and the first identifier may be received from a second transponder. The first identifier is also written to the second transponder by the RFID writer when the second transponder is placed proximate to the RFID writer. The first and second transponders are associated with the first user based on receiving the first identifier from both the first and second transponders. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140306810 | PASSIVE RF DEVICES THAT COMMUNICATE USING A WIRELESS NETWORK PROTOCOL - Passive RF devices are disclosed that communicate using a wireless network protocol. The device includes an antenna operable to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from a RF source that transmits the RF signal based on a wireless network protocol. The device further includes circuitry operable to derive power from the RF signal. With the power derived from the RF signal, the circuitry is further operable to read data from a memory, to encode the data based on the wireless network protocol, and to modulate the RF signal to include the encoded data. The antenna is further operable to transmit the modulated RF signal based on the wireless network protocol for reception by the RF source or another passive RF device. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20150042459 | RFID TRANSPONDER HAVING A PLURALITY OF MEMORY AREAS - A read/write device (SLG) for a transponder (T) and a method for generating addresses (xUID | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150310236 | APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO SEMI-AUTOMATIC GOLF DATA COLLECTING AND RECORDING - Apparatuses, methods and systems relating to golf data collecting and recording are described. In one embodiment an apparatus on a golf club includes an integrated reminder and a stroke cancellation system and is semi-automatic in that the recording of the stroke is directly in response to changing the state (e.g. activating) of a switch which indicates that the golfer has pressed a button on the golf club. The pressing of the button indicates that the golfer will or has taken a stroke with the golf club and that the stroke is to be recorded, optionally with the location of the stroke and an identifier of the club (e.g. 9 iron). | 10-29-2015 |
