Patent ID: 7679512
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating an accurate chronological organization of a collection of radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data gathered from distributed servers, the method comprising: utilizing a centralized RFID management component to limit a processing of RFID tag data based at least in part on an operational status of a plurality of remotely distributed sources of RFID tag data, each of the plurality of remotely distributed sources each being specifically identified to the centralized RFID management component as being a registered member of a remotely distributed group of RFID tag data sources from which the collection of tag data is to be organized chronologically, across the sources in the group, based on when the RFID tag data was received; utilizing the centralized RFID management component to determine that a particular remote RFID server, despite being one of the said plurality of remotely distributed sources of RFID tag data that is a registered member of the remotely distributed group of RFID tag data sources, has its said operational status set to an excluded operational status, the excluded operational status being indicative of a system preference to exclude tag data from the particular remote server regardless of a functional or online/offline status of the particular remote server; and wherein said limiting the processing of RFID tag data comprises responding to the determination that the particular remote RFID server has its said operational status set to the excluded operational status by utilizing a computer processor that is a component of a computer to institute a prohibition of processing RFID tag data from a set of RFID tag readers managed by the particular remote RFID server, and wherein instituting a prohibition of processing RFID tag data from the set of RFID tag readers comprises prohibiting from the collection of tag data all tag data from the set of RFID tag readers managed by the particular remote RFID server.