Patent ID: 7999658

Claim:
A method comprising: communicating over a respective network connection with a tag reader device, the tag reader device being in wireless communication with each of multiple types of wireless identification tags in a respective monitored region via use of multiple different types of radio communication protocols: interleaving portions of the multiple different types of wireless communication protocols to communicate with the multiple wireless identification tags; and in response to transmitting a query over the network connection to the tag reader device, receiving a response from the tag reader device over the network connection, the response including specific data requested for retrieval as identified by the query, receipt of the query by the tag reader prompting the tag reader to communicate with the multiple types of wireless identification tags and retrieve the specific data; wherein the interleaving includes: during a first time range, transmitting a respective first portion associated with a first protocol of the multiple different types of radio communication protocols; during a second time range following the first time range, transmitting a respective portion associated with a second protocol of the multiple different types of radio communication protocols; and during a third time range following the second time range, transmitting a respective second portion associated with the first protocol of the multiple different types of wireless protocols.