Patent ID: 8018322

Claim:
A system, comprising a radio frequency identification (RFID) edge server that is connected to one or more RFID reader devices, each RFID reader device including an antenna to read data on RFID tags, wherein said one or more RFID reader devices provide said data to the RFID edge server; and a console to manage the RFID edge server, said console including a graphical interface that displays a set of application-level event (ALE) filters associated with the one or more RFID reader devices and allows selection of said ALE filters on the RFID edge server, wherein when the selection of an ALE filter is received on said graphical interface, the RFID edge server applies the selected ALE filter to the antenna of the one or more RFID reader devices such that only a subset of the data that matches said filter is provided to the RFID edge server; wherein observers of the selected ALE filter receive data from any antenna that references said selected ALE filter; and wherein the console displays a list of available ALE filters when a particular RFID reader device is selected on said graphical interface.