Patent ID: 11915081
Assignee: APPTRICITY CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A method of transmitting communications between a physically flexible radio frequency (RF) tag and a home computer network for asset tracking comprising the steps of:
providing a first computer server on a home network, said first computer server coupled to a first database and a first gateway, said first computer server having one or more hardware data processors;
supporting communications to and from the home network using said first gateway server;
providing one or more flexible radio frequency (RF) tag associated with one or more trackable asset, said flexible radio frequency (RF) tag having
a beacon layer with an integrated transmitter and power source having an active radio beacon constructed on a flexible printed circuit board, said radio beacon is configured to transmit radio frequency signals, said radio beacon remaining dormant until activated and said radio beacon has data storage and programming capabilities after activation wherein encoding is reported to the tag for storage and broadcast;
one or more antenna for receiving and transmitting said radio frequency signals;
an actuatable switch coupled to the radio beacon that when actuated with a radio signal will activate the radio beacon; and
a battery, said battery being flexible or semi-flexible, attached adjacent the flexible printed circuit board and coupled to the actuatable switch, said battery remaining dormant until activated by the actuatable switch, said radio beacon and said battery being the integrated transmitter and power source;
a pressure device that manually actuates the actuatable switch when a physical pressing force is applied to it, or a decoder that electronically actuates the actuatable switch by receipt of an external radio signal; and
one or more flexible layers providing support, protection and/or adhesion affixed to a top surface, a bottom surface, or around one or more edges, of the beacon layer, at least one of which is a flexible top layer printable with machine readable code, human readable text, and combinations thereof, said flexible top layer is affixed to said top surface of said beacon layer,
said flexible RF tag is configured to be in communication with one or more computing device external to and in wireless communication with the flexible RF tag for tracking an asset associated with said flexible RF tag;
providing a radio frequency receiver device that has application programming to receive transmissions from the beacon, said radio frequency receiving device is a computer, tablet computer, pad computer, laptop computer, mobile phone, handheld mobile device, or a dedicated radio frequency receiving device;

receiving, by said radio frequency receiver device, radio frequency signals transmitted from the radio beacon,
relaying transmissions received by the radio frequency receiver device to the first computer server, and
storing received transmissions in said database.