Method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data...

Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition

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C340S010100, C340S010510

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07956742

ABSTRACT:
This invention relates generally to a method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags that are associated in some manner to any type of object. More particularly, the present invention writes data to these tags, reads data from these tags, and manages data that is written to and/or read from these tags.In addition, the invention accesses and/or stores data associated with tags from or into repositories, constructs and maintains data structures from these repositories and responds to queries using the data structures.

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