ARTICLE MANAGING SYSTEM
First Claim
1. An article managing system having a wireless tag attached to an article, a reader/writer for reading a unique ID of the wireless tag with a wireless communication via an antenna, and managing means for instructing the reader/writer to obtain the unique ID of the wireless tag, comprising:
- deciding means for deciding a reader/writer to which a UID obtainment command is transmitted; and
controlling means for transmitting the UID obtainment command to the reader writer decided by said deciding means.
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Abstract
A management PC comprises a polling combination table 11a for storing data (combination data) where a combination of reader/writers, which are not problematic when being polled simultaneously, and a polled flag. The management PC examines combination data of each row by sequentially referencing the polling combination table starting at the first row in the polling process of a reader/writer. Then, one or a plurality of reader/writers set in the combination data are concurrently polled. Then, the polled flags of the polled reader/writers are set to “1”. After referencing the last row of the polling combination table, the management PC clears the polled flags of all of rows of the polling combination table to “0”, and repeats the above described series of operations.
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1. An article managing system having a wireless tag attached to an article, a reader/writer for reading a unique ID of the wireless tag with a wireless communication via an antenna, and managing means for instructing the reader/writer to obtain the unique ID of the wireless tag, comprising:
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deciding means for deciding a reader/writer to which a UID obtainment command is transmitted; and
controlling means for transmitting the UID obtainment command to the reader writer decided by said deciding means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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