Patent ID: 8264321

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting, by a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, RFID tag information, wherein the RFID tag information comprises a tag identification code and an encrypted tag authentication code, and wherein the RFID tag information comprises encrypted data that is encrypted according to a tag security protocol associated with the RFID tag; wherein the encrypted tag authentication code is decrypted using a decryption key to authenticate the RFID tag, wherein the decryption key is associated with the tag identification code; mutually authenticating, by the RFID tag, a RFID read device; and verifying the encrypted data by communicating with a tag processing service (TPS), wherein the encrypted data is decrypted using the tag security protocol maintained by the TPS, and wherein the verifying is in response to the RFID read device authenticating the RFID tag.