DYNAMIC UPDATES IN RFID MANAGER

• US 20080174404A1
• Filed: 01/23/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: C., Arunkumar, Gopalan, Krishnan
• Application Number:
  US11/625,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20080174404A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing and/or monitoring data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) network. The RFID network can include at least one device that receives data from a tag, wherein the RFID network can employ an RFID process that can utilize at least a portion of the data received from the tag. An update component can dynamically collect a status related to a portion of at least one of the device, the tag, the RFID process, a component, and/or the RFID network to enable real-time and continuous monitoring thereof.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates monitoring data within an RFID network, comprising:

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

the RFID network employs a radio frequency identification (RFID) process that utilizes at least a portion of the data received from the tag; and

an update component that dynamically collects a status related to a portion of at least one of the device, the tag, the RFID process, a component, or the RFID network to enable real-time and continuous monitoring thereof.

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, or 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;

or a real-time event generation system.

4. The system of claim 1, the component is at least one of an event handler, a filter, a transform, an aggregation, a portion of managed code running in a context of the RFID process, or an event handler that employs a transformation on data received from the tag.

5. The system of claim 1, the update component collects at least one Window Management Instrumentation (WMI) event generated by the RFID network to enable the real-time and continuous monitoring.

6. The system of claim 1, the update component provides the real-time and continuous monitoring based at least in part upon a portion of an operating system management instrumentation event.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising an RFID manager component that utilizes the dynamically collected status to facilitate managing the RFID network.

8. The system of claim 7, the RFID manager component receives at least one operating system management instrumentation event to enable automatic and dynamic status updates.

9. The system of claim 1, the update component is utilized by an administrator console to provide automatic and dynamic real-time status update.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one of a user interface (UI) and/or a graphical user interface (GUI) to automatically display at least a portion of real-time status update.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a log component that tracks dynamically collected real-time data from a portion of at least one of the device, the tag, the RFID process, a component, or the RFID network.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a search component that enables dynamically collected real-time data to be queried.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security component that ensures data integrity to at least one portion of collected real-time data.

14. The system of claim 1, the update component implements real-time trouble-shooting based at least in part upon the collected real-time data.

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 update 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 monitoring data within a radio frequency identification (RFID) network, comprising:

collecting real-time data associated with an entity in the RFID network; and

displaying real-time data for dynamic monitoring of the RFID network.

18. The method of claim 17, the entity corresponds to at least one of a device, a tag, a portion of code related to an RFID process, a portion of code, a component associated with the RFID process, an event handler, an aggregation, a transformation, a filter, a portion of managed code running in context of an RFID process, a machine related to an RFID process, a machine related to the RFID network, a machine related to an RFID server, or a machine related to a host providing a portion of an RFID service.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

logging real-time data;

querying real-time data;

implementing real-time monitoring;

utilizing real-time management; and

employing real-time trouble-shooting.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates monitoring data within an RFID network, comprising:

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

means for employing a radio frequency identification (RFID) process that utilizes at least a portion of the data received from the tag;

means for dynamically collecting a status related to a portion of at least one of the device, the tag, the RFID process, a component, and/or the RFID network to enable real-time and continuous monitoring thereof, and

means for displaying the status in connection with an administrator console.