Patent ID: 8587409

Claim:
A radio secure reader for controlling an operation mode of a radio secure tag, comprising: a reader modem to receive the operation mode from the radio secure tag; and a reader processing unit to identify the received operation mode as a normal mode or a secure mode, and to control the radio secure tag based on the identified operation mode, wherein the control comprises of operating the radio secure tag only in a single mode, either the secure mode or the normal mode, using a toggle mode command unit, and wherein when the operation mode is identified as the normal mode, the reader processing unit performs a first inventory process and performs authentication processing with respect to the radio secure tag, and when the authentication processing is completed, the reader processing unit is allowed to control the radio secure tag, and when the operation mode is identified as the secure mode, the reader processing unit performs a second inventory process including authentication processing with respect to the radio secure tag and then, is allowed to control the radio secure tag.