Patent ID: 7040532
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking wine making data received from a wine barrel stored in a rack using in a radio frequency identification (RFID) system, comprising: providing an extendible hand-held RFID scanner to reach within transmission proximity of an RFID tag attached to the wine barrel; storing wine barrel identification data on the RFID tag; receiving the wine barrel identification data from the RFID tag on the hand-held RFID scanner; sending wine making data corresponding to the identified wine barrel from the hand-held RFID scanner to a remote computer; receiving wine making data from the remote computer on the hand-held RFID scanner; selecting a first portion of the wine making data to be managed on the hand-held RFID scanner in a manner suited to the wine making process; and selecting a second portion of the wine making data to be managed on the remote computer in a manner suited to the wine making process.