Patent ID: 8423548

Claim:
A method of tagging an inventory of personal property items comprising: registering a user by an inventory system; providing an inventory software program associated with the inventory system, to a mobile device associated with the user, wherein some or all of the inventory software program is at least in part: preinstalled on the mobile device of the user, transmitted to the mobile device of the user, or preinstalled on the mobile device and transmitted to the mobile device of the user; partly causing an image capture instruction to be presented to the user on the mobile device; receiving at the inventory system: an image wherein the image is taken using the user's mobile device, a detected one or more RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags which are in proximity to an RFID reader associated with the user's mobile device at substantially the same time the image was taken by the user using the user's mobile device, and a geographic location of the user's mobile device wherein the geographic location is determined at least in part using a GPS (Global Position Satellite) location information and corresponds to at least in part the geographic location of the user's mobile device at substantially the same time the image was taken by the user using the user's mobile device; identifying at least in part by the inventory system a one or more items within the image; forming a one-to-one association of the detected one or more RFID tags with the one or more identified items within the image; forming a one-to-many association of a room identifier with the one or more identified items within the image; storing by the inventory system in computer readable memory, the one or more identified items and their associated RFID tags and room identifiers; providing a user interface via which the room identifier and the identified items can be (a) viewed, (b) edited, (c) reassigned or any combination of (a), (b), and (c) by the user.