Method and Write/Read Station and Transponder of an RFID System for Data Transmission

• US 20080100433A1
• Filed: 10/26/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: FEIG ELECTRONIC GmbH
• Original Assignee: FEIG ELECTRONIC GmbH
• Inventors: Desch, Markus
• Application Number:
  US11/925,298
• Publication Number:
  US 20080100433A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/505
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10198 setting parameters for the interrogator, e.g. programming parameters and operating modes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10297 arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for data transmission between a write/read station of an RFID (radio frequency identification) system and at least one RFID transponder, wherein the write/read station emits a query in order to demand an initial reply from the at least one transponder and wherein the write/read station emits an operating mode instruction before, with, or after the query, which instruction instructs every transponder that receives this query and operating mode instruction to emit its initial reply to the write/read station without or with a checksum.

Claims

1. A method for data transmission between a write/read station of an RFID (radio frequency identification) system and at least one RFID transponder, wherein the write/read station transmits a query in order to demand an initial reply from the at least one transponder,

characterized in that

the write/read station before, with, or after the query transmits an operating mode instruction, which instructs every transponder that receives this query and operating mode instruction to emit its initial reply to the write/read station without or with a checksum.

2. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the operating mode instruction is configured as binary 1-bit information.

3. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the operating mode instruction is a constituent part of the query.

4. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the write/read station transmits the operating mode instruction in a time sequence immediately before the emission of the query.

5. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the write/read station only transmits the operating mode instruction when a trans-ponder is to transmit the initial reply with a checksum.

6. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that the write/read station adaptively modifies the operating mode instruction.

7. A method according to claim 6, characterized in that the write/read station instructs the at least one transponder with the help of the operating mode instruction to transmits its next initial reply with a checksum only after a failed communication construction.

8. A write/read station for applying the method according to claim 1, having a control and evaluation unit, an emitting device, a receiving device, a transmitting and receiving antenna, and an interface,

characterized in that

the write/read stationary is constructed as a write/read station that switches the operating mode and transmits the operating mode instruction.

9. A write/read station according to claim 8, characterized in that the write/read station comprises an analysis device for the received data and/or signals.

10. A write/read station according to claim 8, characterized in that the write/read station is configured as a write/read station that can switch from an operating mode without checksum into an operating mode with checksum and vice versa.

11. A write/read station according to claim 1, characterized in that it is established in the control and evaluation unit whether an operating mode instruction is emitted and if so, which instruction is emitted.

12. A transponder for applying the method according to claim 1, having a receiving device, a transmitting device, a transmitting and receiving antenna, and an energy memory,

characterized in that

the transponder comprises an evaluation and control unit and is constructed as a transponder that receives the operating mode instruction and switches the operating mode.

13. A method according to claim 2, characterized in that the operating mode instruction is a constituent part of the query.