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

• US 10,459,930 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motedata Corporation
• Original Assignee: Motedata Incorporated
• Inventors: Lupoli, Peter, Kesan, Jay, Cappello, Peter R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hung T
• Application Number:
  US15/811,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20180067949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• Field of Search: 3405721, 3405723, 3405724, 3405731, 3405391, 34053911, 34082569, 34082572, 340 101, 340 1051, 235375, 235376, 235383, 235385
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/211 Schema design and management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24564 Applying rules; Deductive queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

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.

Claims

1. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, the method being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:

accessing data associated with one or more tags from one or more data repositories, the one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data associated with the one or more tags including static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more tags;

linking together at least one portion of the accessed data that is associated with at least one of the one or more tag identifiers, to provide static, dynamic and temporal information of an object using the static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more tags;

determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy a query or keyword search; and

ranking the determined two or more tag identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the dynamic information includes information that changes constantly, and the temporal information includes information that changes discretely and intermittently over the life of an entity.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

constructing one or more data structures to organize the data associated with the one or more tags.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more organized data structures comprise at least one database that includes a relational database and at least one index.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one index comprises an inverted index.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one index comprises a primary index and a secondary index.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

storing the accessed data associated with the one or more tags in the one or more data structures.

8. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

populating the one or more data structures with electronic addresses of the data associated with the one or more tags.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

responding to the query or keyword search with a list of aggregated data associated with the determined two or more tag identifiers.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

forming an ordered list of aggregated data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the steps of accessing data, linking data and storing data comprise crawling through the one or more repositories.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the repositories has a first owner and at least another of the one or more repositories has a second owner that is different than the first owner.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the query includes a query from a parent requesting the identity of people that came into contact with a child.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the accessed data associated with the one or more tags includes chain of title information and environmental condition information obtained by one or more sensors.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein further comprising performing proximity tracking of the one or more tags and recording an event when a tag comes within a range of other tags.

16. A system for retrieving and organizing data that is associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers from a plurality of repositories, the system comprising a processor that:

retrieves data associated with one or more tags from one or more of the repositories, the one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, and the data associated with one or more tags including static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more tags;

links together at least one portion of the data that is associated with at least one of the one or more tag identifiers, to provide static, dynamic and temporal information of an object using the static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more tags;

determines two or more tag identifiers that satisfy a query or keyword search; and

ranks the determined two or more tag identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor further responds to the query or keyword search with a list of aggregated data associated with the determined two or more tag identifiers.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the dynamic information includes information that changes constantly, and the temporal information includes information that changes discretely and intermittently over the life of an entity.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor further constructs one or more data structures to organize the data associated with at least the one or more tag identifiers.

20. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, the method being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:

accessing data associated with one or more entities, the entities associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data associated with the one or more entities including static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more entities, the data being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein a step of accessing data associated with the one or more entities is triggered by a first event notification, and wherein the dynamic information includes information that changes constantly, and the temporal information includes information that changes discretely and intermittently over the life of an entity;

accessing data associated with one or more other entities, the other entities associated with one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data associated with the one or more entities including static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more other entities, the data being stored in one or more data repositories, wherein a step of accessing data associated with one or more other entities is triggered by a second event notification;

linking the accessed data associated with the one or more entities together with the accessed data associated with the one or more other entities using the one or more tag identifiers to provide static, dynamic and temporal information of an object using the static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more entities and the static, dynamic and temporal information of the one or more other entities;

determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy a query; and

ranking the determined two or more tag identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers.