RFID-based active labeling system for telecommunication systems
First Claim
1. An active labeling system for labeling at least one component of a telecommunication system, comprising:
- at least one electrically addressable active label device having a display driver operably connected to a display medium, the active label device configured to form on the display medium indicia that remain static and visible when the active label device is unpowered, and wherein the display medium is disposed on one of the least one telecommunication system component;
a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag having an integrated circuit (IC) chip and an antenna system and disposed on or adjacent the active label device, with the IC chip electrically connected to the device display driver; and
a RFID reader adapted to communicate with the RFID tag via RF reader signals that contain information about the at least one telecommunication system component (“
component information”
),wherein the component information is provided to the display driver via the RFID tag to form on the display medium one or more of the indicia that is/are representative of the component information.
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Abstract
A radio-frequency identification-(RFID)-based active labeling system for labeling components of a telecommunication system. The active labeling system includes an electronically addressable active label device that forms and displays indicia that remains static and visible when the device is unpowered. A RFID tag is operably connected to the device and is configured to receive a RF signal that contains component information, and to harvest power from the RF signal. The RFID tag then transfers the component information and power to active label device to enable it to form and display indicia representative of the component information. A database unit is operably connected or is contained directly in the RF reader and contains the component information on a computer-readable medium.
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32 Claims
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1. An active labeling system for labeling at least one component of a telecommunication system, comprising:
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at least one electrically addressable active label device having a display driver operably connected to a display medium, the active label device configured to form on the display medium indicia that remain static and visible when the active label device is unpowered, and wherein the display medium is disposed on one of the least one telecommunication system component; a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag having an integrated circuit (IC) chip and an antenna system and disposed on or adjacent the active label device, with the IC chip electrically connected to the device display driver; and a RFID reader adapted to communicate with the RFID tag via RF reader signals that contain information about the at least one telecommunication system component (“
component information”
),wherein the component information is provided to the display driver via the RFID tag to form on the display medium one or more of the indicia that is/are representative of the component information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of labeling at least one telecommunication component of a telecommunication system, comprising:
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providing at least one electrically addressable active label device having a display driver operably connected to a display medium, the active label device configured to form on the display medium indicia that remain static and visible when the device is unpowered; disposing the display medium on one of the least one telecommunication system component; operably coupling a RFID tag to the active label device; providing a RF signal to the RFID tag, the RF signal containing information about the at least one telecommunication system component (“
component information”
);receiving the RF signal at the RFID tag and transferring the component information to the active label device; and forming on the display medium indicia representative of the component information. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based active labeling system for labeling at least one telecommunication component of a telecommunication system, comprising:
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at least one display device having an electrophoretic-based or a cholesteric-based display medium arranged on at least one of the at least one telecommunication component, the display medium configured to display one or more indicia that remain static and visible when no power is provided to the display device; a RF reader adapted to send RF reader signals containing information about the at least one telecommunication component (“
component information”
);a RFID tag operably connected to the display device and configured to receive the RF reader signals and the component information therein and to provide the component information to the display device; and wherein the display device forms and displays the one or more indicia on the display medium based on the component information. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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