RESCUE TRACK AND LOCATE NAME BADGE

• US 20090236415A1
• Filed: 01/26/2009
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: New Scale Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: New Scale Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Bailey, Kenneth S., Mula, Paul
• Application Number:
  US12/359,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20090236415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A name badge which has wireless capabilities. The name badge is normally maintained in a power reduced states, but detects an excitation signal from a remote antenna and turns on to provide ID information. The ID information can be associated with the transaction from the remote computer, and used to determine who initiated that transaction.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a portable badge that uniquely identifies an individual, said badge having a power supply that is normally in a condition in which it has a reduced power consumption, and in said reduced power consumption mode, said badge is stopped from performing an identification function and said badge also having a power increased function in which an identifier indicative of a person associated with said identifier is sent to a local receiver; and

an information accumulating part, receiving said identifier, and associating said identifier with a position of said information accumulating part, and with a time and date.

2. A system as in claim 1, wherein said information accumulating part detects only a badge that is within a proximity of said information accumulating part.

3. A system as in claim 1, wherein said information accumulating part turns on an operation of said badge when said badge is within a proximity of said information accumulating part, said turns on causing said power increased function.

4. A system as in claim 3, further comprising written materials on an outer surface of said badge, said written materials identifying a person wearing the badge.

5. A system as in claim 4, further comprising an indicator that lights to indicate said power increased function.

6. A device as in claim 1, further comprising an indicator lamp which is lit to indicate said power increased function.

7. A transaction register, comprising:

a transaction portion, which enables determination of transactions carried out by an employee;

a wireless detection portion, which wirelessly detects a proximity of a specified identification associated with said employee; and

an information sending part, that sends both said transaction information and said wirelessly determined information to a remote server.

8. A register as in claim 7, wherein said wireless detection portion detects an identification that indicates a specific person who is within range of, and operating, the transaction register.

9. A register as in claim 7, further comprising an excitation antenna that produces a signal to turn on a remote selected identification device, and circuitry which operates subsequent to turning on said remote identification, to read said information from the remote selected identification device.

10. A register as in claim 7, wherein said transaction register is a cash register.

11. A register as in claim 9, wherein said remote selected identification device is a portable badge that uniquely identifies an individual, said badge having a power supply that is normally in a condition in which it has a reduced power consumption, and in said reduced power consumption mode, said badge is stopped from performing an identification function and said badge also having a power increased function in which an identifier indicative of a person associated with said identifier is sent to said register.

12. A method, comprising:

normally maintaining a battery-operated identification badge in a power reduced state;

detecting, in said battery-operated identification badge, a signal from a remote device, and turning on said battery-operated identification badge only upon detecting said signal from said remote device;

sending signals indicative of user unique information to said remote device; and

when not detecting said signal from said remote device, said battery operated identification badge entering said power reduced state.

13. A method as in claim 12, further comprising receiving said user unique information in a server, and associating said user unique information with a transaction.

14. Method as in claim 12, further comprising sending said user unique information along with transaction information and time information, to a remote server.