Patent ID: 8659389

Claim:
A system for securely monitoring high-value items, the system comprising: (a) an inventory-monitoring agent comprising: (i) an identification module for receiving an identifier from an RFID scanning device and comparing the received identifier to a list of trusted identifiers, thereby confirming that the RFID scanning device is in a set of one or more trusted RFID scanning devices associated with a plurality of trusted RFID tags, wherein the trusted RFID tags are registered to and authenticatably readable only by the set of trusted RFID scanning devices; (ii) a scanning module for receiving, from the RFID scanning device, RFID tag scan data associated with a high-value item and an RFID tag, and verifying that the RFID tag is one of the trusted RFID tags registered to and authenticatably readable by the RFID scanning device; and (iii) a local data store for storing the scan data; and (b) a central monitoring service located remotely from and in secure communication with the inventory-monitoring agent, the central monitoring service comprising a communications module for securely accessing the contents of the local data store.