Patent ID: 8604913

Claim:
A method for disabling a tag device, the method performed by a reading device and comprising: receiving, from a mobile processor, a killing command for disabling the tag device, wherein the killing command includes a first message type field, a first code field, a first payload length field and an first payload field, the first payload field including an argument and being represented by a first payload type, wherein the argument comprises a unique identifier, a value specifying the length of the unique identifier, an access password and a kill password, the unique identifier indicating the tag device to be disabled; obtaining the unique identifier based on the unique identifier length; detecting the tag device to be disabled with the unique identifier; accessing the detected tag device with the access password; and disabling the accessed tag device with the kill password; and transmitting, to the mobile processor, a killing response in response to the received killing command, wherein the killing response includes a second message type field, a second code field, a second payload length field and a second payload field, the second payload field being represented by a second payload type, the second payload type having a different data field structure from the first payload type.