Patent ID: 9435877
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G01S,G06Q,H04B

Claim Text:
1. A method of operation in a self-shopping platform including a plurality of readers fixedly positioned within an environment, the method comprising: selecting, by at least one processor, one of a plurality of self-shopping terminals associated with the self-shopping platform; sending, by the at least one processor, an activation command to the selected self-shopping terminal over a first wireless communication channel, the first wireless communication channel utilizing wireless signals other than ultra-wideband signals; in response to the sending of the activation command, receiving, by a plurality of reader processors of a respective plurality of readers, ultra-wideband signals from an ultra-wideband tag of the selected self-shopping terminal; determining, by each of the plurality of reader processors of the respective plurality of readers which receive the ultra-wideband signals, a ranging value indicative of a distance between the self-shopping terminal and the respective reader using the received ultra-wideband signals; and sending, by each of the plurality of reader processors of the respective plurality of readers which receive the ultra-wideband signals, the determined ranging value to a processor-based locator system over at least one data communication channel.