Patent ID: 8594004
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for synchronizing application executed on a mobile device with a centralized database, the method comprising: synchronizing, with one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems, with a mobile device first metadata indicative of how one or more applications executed on the mobile device normalize data collected from one or more sensor device by the mobile device; synchronizing, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a first RFID event collected according to the first metadata from an offline database at the mobile device with an online database associated with the one or more computer systems in response to a determination at the mobile device to synchronize RFID events stored in the offline database with the online database; synchronizing, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, with the mobile device second metadata indicative of how the one or more applications executed on the mobile device normalize data collected from the one or more sensor device by the mobile device; synchronizing, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a second RFID event collected according to the second metadata from the offline database at the mobile device with the online database associated with the one or more computer systems in response to a determination at the mobile device to synchronize RFID events stored in the offline database with the online database; and updating, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, the online database according to either the first metadata or the second metadata.