Patent ID: 8274359
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
1. A wireless access point for communicating messages in an electronic article surveillance network, the electronic article surveillance network including at least one electronic article surveillance sensor hard-wired to at least one wireless device node, the wireless access point comprising: a wired communication interface configured to receive a message, the message including a sub-layer address corresponding to an electronic article surveillance sensor; a wireless communication interface configured to: a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter buffer configured to receive the message through the wired communication interface, the message having been received as a series of data packets; a radio frequency data transfer buffer configured to store data packets to be broadcast through the wireless communication interface; a serial data transfer buffer configured to transfer data packets between the universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter buffer and the radio frequency data transfer buffer; a controller electrically coupled to the wired communication interface and to the wireless communication interface, the controller configured to: a predictor configured to: