Patent ID: 8098158

Claim:
A system that facilitates implementing an RFID process by providing creation and/or execution of the RFID process as it relates to a provider and associated devices related to the provider, the system comprising one or more computer processors, system memory, and recorded computer-executable instructions, the system further comprising: a component that receives information relating to at least one or more providers; and an RFID server component that employs the information in connection with providing an RFID process that can be applied generically to a plurality of devices associated with a subset of the providers, the RFID server component enabling: (1) a separation of a logical representation of the device and a physical representation of the device; (2) a write-once independent software vendor model that can utilize an event processing tree to deploy in different environments with different device topologies; (3) a user to define and author a business process to detect, consume and act upon the RFID event; (4) a separation of design time, a deployment time, and execution time utilizing a binding model; and (5) an RFID engine to execute the RFID process as a web-service, wherein process deployment/provisioning is transparent.