Patent ID: 7317394

Claim:
A system for developing and deploying a number of individually located Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)-enabled software applications, capable of securely monitoring a status of and communicating with a number of connected physical RFID devices to access data stored on RFID tags, the system comprising: an RFID-Software Development Kit (RFID-SDK) comprising a set of externalized RFID-enabling Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) invokable, during run time, by said RFID-enabled software applications for accessing the RFID tag data; and a number of logical RFID devices, each coupled with said RFID-enabled software applications through a selectable subset of said set of externalized RFID-enabling APIs, and coupled with said physical RFID devices through a corresponding set of device-dependent interfaces, each communicating with a matching member of said RFID devices, for securely bridging communication between said RFID-enabled software applications and said physical RFID devices to access the RFID tag data.