Patent ID: 8081076

Claim:
A method for visually locating short distance emission RFID tags to locate items in a container, the container comprising a plurality of rectangular compartments, each compartment comprising a plurality of faces, comprising: initiating a reading sequence of a plurality of first RFID tags, each first RFID tag attached to a respective item located in a respective compartment of the container, and wherein each first RFID tag emits an identification (ID); capturing the ID emitted by each first RFID tag using a plurality of second RFID tags located in the container, each second RFID tag coupled to a respective illumination source, wherein the compartments are formed by a plurality of interlocking dividers, wherein each divider comprises a plurality of fingers, wherein the fingers form the faces of the compartments, and wherein each face of each compartment includes one of the second RFID tags and the respective coupled illumination source; addressing one of the first RFID tags; and activating the illumination source coupled to each second RFID tag having captured the ID of the addressed first RFID tag.