Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-19
2006-12-19
Trieu, Van T. (Department: 2636)
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
C340S572400, C340S539110, C340S568100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07151453
ABSTRACT:
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for updating information on a writable tag bound to an article. In one aspect, a method includes: receiving in a system first attribute information for a first article derived from data read automatically from a first tag bound to the article; similarly receiving second attribute information for a second article; receiving sensor information derived from a sensor coupled to the second article; receiving relationship information specifying a relationship between the articles; maintaining first and second virtual articles representing the first article and the second article and sensor information, respectively, and maintaining a context object representing the relationship; recognizing an alert condition relating to the first article; generating updated attribute information; detecting the presence of the first tag at a tag writer station after the alert condition; and causing the tag writer station to write the updated information to the first tag.
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