Patent ID: 7481368
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: G06K,G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A method comprising a plurality of activities, the plurality of activities comprising: automatically populating a first database table with data obtained from one or more radio identification readers, said first database table comprising a first plurality of records, each of said first plurality of records comprising an identification of an object, an identification of a particular location of the object, an explicit start time indicating when the object became associated with the particular location of the object, and an explicit stop time indicating when the object ceased being associated with the particular location of the object, the particular location of the object comprised by each record one of a plurality of potential locations, each particular location of the object automatically determined responsive to automatically generatable, automatically receivable, radio frequency identification information, each record created upon association of the object with a different particular location of the object than that of a temporally adjacent record; automatically populating a second database table with said data obtained from the one or more radio identification readers, said second database table comprising a second plurality of records, each of said second plurality of records comprising said identification of the object, an identification of a container associated with the object, an explicit start time indicating when the object became associated with the container, and an explicit stop time indicating when the object ceased being associated with the container, the container comprised by each record one of a plurality of potential containers, each record created upon association of the object with a different container associated with the object than that of a temporally adjacent record; and automatically determining that said identification of the object and the particular location of the object comprised in a first radio frequency identification record duplicates the identification of the object and the particular location of the object in a second radio frequency identification record, said first radio frequency identification record associated with a first subset of data from a first radio identification reader, said second radio frequency identification record associated with a second subset of data from a second radio identification reader, said second subset of data obtained within a predetermined interference interval of said first subset of data.