Patent ID: 7382253

Claim:
A system for providing an inventory of a plurality of first class objects and a plurality of second class objects, such pluralities of objects being distributed in a first defined location and in a second defined location; such first defined location and such second defined location being accessible to each other via a common connecting pathway; said system comprising: motion sensing means for producing a detection signal when the presence or motion of an object being either a first class object or a second class object is detected when present or moving through such common connecting pathway; universal signal transmitting means being responsive to said detection signal when received from said motion sensing means for transmitting a universal signal; unique identity signal detecting means for detecting the presence or absence of a unique identity signal from such detected object; each first class object and each second class object comprising means for transmitting a unique identity signal in response to said universal signal; and information storage means being responsive to said unique identity signal detecting means and being capable of storing information corresponding to the presence or absence of a unique identity signal from such detected object.