Patent ID: 7068992

Claim:
A wireless communication system for polling wireless devices having a substantially fixed location, said system comprising: at least one wireless device capable of receiving a poll request, originating from a host computer, each wireless device communicating with the host computer using a respective predetermined base transceiver station of the system; a routing switch communicable with the host computer and the base transceiver station, comprising: a poll download server, communicable with the host computer and receiving the poll request from the host computer pertaining to which the at least one wireless device are to be polled, said poll download server communicable with a first data repository for storing the poll request data; a poll scheduler server, accessing the first data repository, for queuing the poll request data on a second data repository; a radio frequency (RF) capacity server, communicable with said poll scheduler server and the second data repository, for maintaining outstanding poll requests; a wireless device management server, communicable with said RF capacity server, for receiving a poll request from said RF capacity server; a radio frequency server, communicable with said wireless device management server, for adding radio frequency information to the poll request; and a protocol server, communicable with at least said radio frequency server, for adding a protocol header to the poll compatible with the wireless device to which the poll is transmitted.