Patent ID: 9007212
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06K,G08B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented process for transmitting a text message for storage on a RFID tag, the computer implemented process comprising: providing a plurality of RFID transceivers, a RFID tag database, and a plurality of RFID tags, each RFID tag having a transmitter, a memory, and a receiver, wherein the RFID tag database catalogs all known RFID tag identifiers and all text messages associated with each of the plurality of RFID tags and wherein each of the plurality of RFID tags are attached to a person or an object; continuously polling, by each RFID transceiver, for RFID tags in range, and responsive to finding a particular RFID tag that is in a range of a particular RFID transceiver at a particular location, determining a location of the one of the person and the object to which the particular RFID tag is attached as the particular location, reading the particular RFID tag's identifier, querying the RFID tag database to determine whether a corresponding text message is pending for the particular RFID tag's identifier, and when a corresponding text message is pending for the particular RFID tag's identifier, sending the corresponding text message to the particular RFID tag having the particular RFID tag's identifier; and responsive to the location of the one of the person and the object having changed from a first location associated with a first RFID transceiver to the particular location associated with the particular RFID transceiver, changing a content of the corresponding text message to a different message configured for the second location.