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Patent US7938326 - RF point of sale and delivery method and system using communication with ... - Google Patents
A method and system for providing point-of-sale and point-of-delivery and/or distribution of products in a restricted access unit near the customer. The method and system utilize products equipped with radio frequency tags and reduce the effects of energy sharing, shadowing, and nulls. In one embodiment,...http://www.google.com/patents/US7938326?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7938326 - RF point of sale and delivery method and system using communication with remote computer and having features to read a large number of RF tags
Publication number US7938326 B2
Also published as CA2474183A1, CN1636223A, EP1485775A2, EP1485775A4, US7661591, US7791479, US8025228, US8113425, US20020183882, US20040222297, US20040222298, US20050040952, US20050125312, US20050127177, US20050194437, US20070069018, US20080116269, US20080121700, US20080135613, US20100116885, US20110192901, USRE46326, WO2003073201A2, WO2003073201A3, WO2003073201B1
Publication number 12694361, 694361, US 7938326 B2, US 7938326B2, US-B2-7938326, US7938326 B2, US7938326B2
Patent Citations (61), Non-Patent Citations (97), Referenced by (6), Classifications (35), Legal Events (2)
US 7938326 B2
10. A system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the identification information apparatus performs at least one of reading a fingerprint and reading a radio frequency identification badge.
(c) a specified limit of interval time between tag
reads has been reached.
modes can be requested. A run is terminated on the
valuees. The Inventory ID identifies a tagged
product in a micro-warehouse.
Baseline Run A run in cloaked or uncloaked mode
Output: IntegLv1, Readtime, to establish the starting inventory list.
Output: (PlusInventoryList, mode to determine a new inventory
ReadTime, ReadTemp) established at baseline, and
Input: (NumScans, RunTime, returns the change in inventory
IntegLv1, ScanInterval, between the master inventory list and
ScanWaitTime, the new inventory list as plus delta
ScanTime, ReadRate) inventory and minus delta inventory.
Background Run A continuous series of scans in
Output: (PlusInventoryList, cloaked or uncloaked
MinusInventoryList, IntegLv1, mode until a termination event
ReadTime, ReadTemp) occurs, such as a user presenting
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International Classification G06K7/08, G07F9/02, G07G1/00, G06F17/00, G06Q10/08, G07F7/08, G07F7/02, G06K7/12, B65G61/00, G06Q30/00, G06K17/00, G06Q10/00, G06K7/10, G06Q30/06
Cooperative Classification G06Q30/0603, G07F9/026, G06K2017/0067, G07G1/0045, G06Q30/06, G06Q10/08, G06Q10/087, G06K2017/0051, F25D2700/08, F25D2500/06, G06K7/10336
European Classification G07G1/00C2, G06Q10/08, G06K7/10A8C, G06Q10/087, G06Q30/0603, G06Q30/06, G07F9/02D