Patent ID: 7123171
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An integrated circuit (IC) for a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tag that has an antenna arranged to receive a wireless wave, comprising: circuitry that is arranged to generate a stream of bits from the wave; a memory; and a processing block that is arranged to: (a) isolate a group of the bits from the stream, (b) designate at least one of the isolated bits as an informing signal, (c) designate the remaining bits of the group as a word, (d) append the word to a previously similarly designated word for forming a reception block, and (e) if the informing signal does not equal a preset termination return to (a), else terminate appending and perform an action that uses the reception block as one of an address for the memory and content for the memory.