Patent ID: 8106746

Claim:
A system, comprising: a carrier structure having a plurality of cells to allow objects having respective data carriers affixed thereon to be placed in respective ones of the cells, each cell including an antenna to receive signals from a data carrier affixed on an object that is placed in the cell; a plurality of indicators, each indicator respectively associated with each of the plurality of cells; an automatic data collection device to: communicate with the data carriers affixed to the objects placed in the respective ones of the cells by interrogating the data carriers and receiving signals generated by one or more data carriers in response to the interrogation; select at least one of the one or more data carriers affixed to one of said objects that is an object of interest based on the signals received from the one or more data carriers; and provide a notification signal to indicate the selection of the at least one of the one or more data carriers; and a control module communicatively coupled to each cell via the antenna included in the cell and via the indicator associated with the cell, the control module being adapted to: monitor the signals generated by the one or more data carriers in response to the interrogation and received by the antennas included in the respective cells; receive the notification signal from the data collection device; and select at least one of the indicators to activate, the selected indicator being associated with one of said cells that has the object of interest placed therein and being adapted to provide an indication of a location of the object of interest, wherein the selection of the at least one of the indicators is based on a cell location information corresponding to each of the one or more data carriers and derived from the monitored signals and information associated with the at least one of the one or more data carriers contained in the received notification signal.