SUPPORT FOR BATCHING OF EVENTS, AND SHREDDING OF BATCHED EVENTS IN THE RFID INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM

• US 20080001710A1
• Filed: 07/28/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sundaram, Jayaram Kalyana, Agarwal, Abhishek, Sriram, Balasubramanian, Ahmed, Mohamed Fakrudeen Ali, Goteti, Janaki Ram, Venkatesh, Ramachandran, Kumar, Anush, Sonnathi, Kalyan Chakravarthy
• Granted Patent: US 8,207,822 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates receiving data from at least one device. A radio frequency identification (RFID) network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag. A batcher component can collect the data based on a start boundary and an end boundary and communicate the batched data to an RFID process.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates receiving data from at least one device, comprising:

a radio frequency identification (RFID) network that includes at least one device that receives data from a tag; and

a batcher component that collects data based on a start boundary and an end boundary and communicates the batched data to an RFID process.

2. The system of claim 1, the RFID process is a high-level object that forms together at least one entity to create a meaningful unit of execution that relates to at least one of the following:

an outbound process;

a manufacturing process;

a shipping process;

a receiving process;

a tracking process;

a data representation process;

a data manipulation process;

a security process; and

a process utilizing one of an RFID device service, a device collection, a tag read, an event, an event queue, a tag write, a device configuration, and a number count.

3. The system of claim 1, the device is one of the following:

an RFID reader;

an RFID writer;

an RFID printer;

a reader;

a writer;

an RFID transmitter;

an antenna;

a sensor;

a real-time device;

an RFID receiver;

a real-time sensor;

a device extensible to a web service; and

a real-time event generation system.

4. The system of claim 1, the start boundary is at least one of a unit of time, a time, a duration of time, a pre-determined number of reads, an amount of data capacity, and a pre-determined amount of data.

5. The system of claim 1, the end boundary is at least one of a unit of time, a time, a duration of time, a pre-determined number of reads, a pre-determined number of tag events, a pre-determined number of tag read events, an amount of data capacity, and a pre-determined amount of data.

6. The system of claim 1, the data is one of the following:

a read from the tag, a tag event, a tag read event, and data transmitted from a tag.

7. The system of claim 1, the batcher component collects data for a plurality of start boundaries and a plurality of end boundaries and communicates the plurality of batched data to the RFID process.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a dedicated queue that includes data received from the device until the boundary conditions are met.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a design-time-provided declarative construct that when deployed can be combined into a relational database query, the relational database query is a sequential query language (SQL).

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one of the following:

the batcher component examines an event processing pipeline to ascertain a batching primitives to receive relevant batched data;

a declarative construct to specify the batching primitive on the event processing pipeline; and

the batcher component pushes the declarative construct to at least one of the device and a server-side based on device capabilities.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a boundary component that receives at least one of a cycle and a boundary condition in accordance with a compiled RFID process, wherein such compilation provides a relational database query that can provide the RFID process with the appropriate batched data.

12. The system of claim 1, the batcher component deals with a set of data rather than with a tag at a time.

13. The system of claim 1, the batched data is taken up for processing by folding a declaratively declared construct into a query and executing the construct on the batched data.

14. The system of claim 13, the declaratively declared construct is at least one of the following:

a filter that is a condition that a deployer is interested;

an aggregation that is a grouping of data before routed to the RFID process; and

a transformation that added to the data before processing.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a presentation component that provides at least one user interface to facilitate interaction between a user and the batcher component.

16. The system of claim 1, the RFID network comprises a collection of devices that form a sub-system which includes:

an RFID reader that receives an RFID signal; and

an RFID tag that transmits to at least one device.

17. A computer-implemented method that facilitates providing data to an RFID process, comprising:

receiving a start boundary and an end boundary in relation to a process;

collecting data in accordance with the start boundary and the end boundary; and

routing the collected data to the process.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising applying at least one of a filter, an aggregation, and a transformation to the batch data in accordance with the process.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

creating a declarative construct at design time;

deploying the RFID process that includes the declarative construct; and

utilizing the declarative construct to combine down into a relational database query.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates providing an RFID process with data, comprising:

means for receiving data from a tag utilizing at least one device; and

means for collecting data based on a start boundary and an end boundary and communicates the batched data to an RFID process.