Method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags
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1. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, comprising:
- accessing data associated with one or more entities, said entities associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers, said data being stored in one or more data repositories;
accessing data associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers, said data associated with the one or more tags being stored in one or more data repositories; and
linking the accessed data associated with the one or more entities together with the accessed data associated with the one or more tags using said one or more tag identifiers.
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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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1. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, comprising:
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accessing data associated with one or more entities, said entities associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers, said data being stored in one or more data repositories;
accessing data associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers, said data associated with the one or more tags being stored in one or more data repositories; and
linking the accessed data associated with the one or more entities together with the accessed data associated with the one or more tags using said one or more tag identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A system for retrieving and organizing data that is associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers from a plurality of repositories comprising:
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means for retrieving said data from one or more of said repositories; and
means for linking together at least one portion of said data that is associated with at least one of said one or more identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29)
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30. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, comprising:
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accessing data associated with one or more entities, said entities associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers, said data being stored in one or more data repositories;
accessing data associated with one or more other entities, said other entities associated with one or more tags having one or more identifiers, said data being stored in one or more data repositories;
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 said one or more tag identifiers;
constructing one or more data structures to organize said data associated with the one or more entities and the data associated with the one or more other entities, wherein said one or more data structures comprise at least one database and at least one index; and
populating one or more data structures with the linked data. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32)
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