Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Patent
1997-09-29
2000-04-04
Williams, Howard L.
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
235375, 235385, G08B 522
Patent
active
060466820
ABSTRACT:
An electronic price label (EPL) including a noisemaker to assist in locating the EPL. Besides a noisemaker, the EPL includes processing circuitry which activates the noisemaker upon receipt of a command from a computer. A method for locating an EPL includes the steps of providing a noisemaker within the EPL, and transmitting a first signal to the EPL including a command to activate the noisemaker from a computer. The method may additionally include the steps of providing a plurality of receiving antennae, determining locations of the receiving antennae, transmitting a second message to the EPL by a computer coupled to the receiving antennae, listening for a third message from the EPL in response to the second message by the computer, determining signal strengths of the third message at each of the receiving antennae, and determining an estimate of the location of the EPL from the signal strengths by the computer.
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Adamec Andrew J.
Zimmerman Terry L.
Jeanglaude Jean B.
Martin Paul W.
NCR Corporation
Priest Peter H.
Williams Howard L.
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