Patent ID: 8427319

Claim:
A method for tracking one or more portable devices in real time to detect theft of the one or more portable devices, the method comprising the steps of: interrogating a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag via a RFID reader during successive sweep intervals, wherein the sweep interval represents active state of the RFID reader, and the RFID tag and the RFID reader reside in a wearable-band adapted to be worn by a user and in the one or more portable devices respectively, or vice versa; receiving one or more pairing information from the RFID tag, wherein the step of receiving the one of more pairing information from the RFID tag comprises: receiving a unique identifier comprising vendor specific information associated with the RFID reader and the wearable band; and receiving a unique number allocated to each pair of the one or more portable devices and the wearable band; comparing the received one or more pairing information with corresponding one or more pairing information stored in the RFID reader; and generating an alert signal via the wearable-band or the one or more portable devices when the received one or more pairing information does not match with the corresponding one or more pairing information stored in the RFID reader.