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Systems and methods for object localization and path identification based on RFID sensing

  • US 10,262,166 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2013
  • Issued: 04/16/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A radio frequency identification (RFID) system for localizing an RFID tag, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tag readers;

    a computer system communicatively coupled with the plurality of RFID tag readers over a network;

    a memory associated with the computer system, the memory storing a network semantic model having a plurality of endpoints and oriented links between the endpoints, wherein the endpoints are associated with physical locations in space, each of the endpoints having associated with it one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) tag readers, the network semantic model further having a plurality of semantic attributes associated with the oriented links, the memory further storing a template of at least one composite semantic attribute indicating that the at least one composite semantic attribute is a combination of a first and a second semantic attribute from among the plurality of semantic attributes;

    the computer system being configured to localize the RFID tag based on data received from the RFID tag readers; and

    to infer and associate a composite semantic attribute to the RFID tag by;

    assigning a first semantic attribute to a first oriented link;

    assigning a second semantic attribute to a second oriented link;

    determining that the RFID tag passed the first oriented link at a first time value and assigning the first semantic attribute to the RFID tag;

    determining that the RFID tag passed a second oriented link at a second time value and assigning the second semantic attribute to the RFID tag;

    inferring the composite semantic attribute based on a combination of the first semantic attribute and the second semantic attribute and the stored template of the at least one composite semantic attribute; and

    associating the at least one composite semantic attribute to the RFID tag; and

    invalidating at least one of the first and the second semantic attribute with the RFID tag after the passage of a predetermined time interval after previously assigning the first and the second semantic attributes; and

    further wherein the computer system does not assign the composite semantic attribute if at least one of the first and the second semantic attributes are invalid.

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