SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR RFID, EMULATED RFID AND RFID-LIKE BASED ENABLEMENT AND PRIVILEGE ALLOCATION

• US 20110241838A1
• Filed: 04/14/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Carl Edward Wischmeyer
• Original Assignee: Carl Edward Wischmeyer
• Inventors: Wischmeyer, Carl Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/086,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20110241838A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly

Abstract

A method of emulating a physical RFID tag includes storing in a machine readable memory an RFID tag encoding, communicating the RFID tag encoding to a system, and using the RFID tag encoding at the system to emulate the physical RFID tag and perform a function without emulating an RFID transponder signal.

Claims

1. A method of emulating a physical RFID tag, the method comprising:

storing in a machine readable memory an RFID tag encoding;

communicating the RFID tag encoding to a system;

using the RFID tag encoding at the system to emulate the physical RFID tag and perform a function without emulating an RFID transponder signal.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the function is to enable functionality associated with the system.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the function is to allow a privilege associated with the system.

4. A method of using an RFID tag encoding to provide privilege, the method comprising:

communicating the RFID tag encoding to a system;

using the RFID tag encoding at the system to establish a privilege associated with the system.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the RFID tag encoding is encoded in a physical RFID tag.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the communicating being performed by reading the physical RFID tag with a tag reader.

7. The method of claim 4 wherein the step of communicating the RFID tag encoding comprises communicating the RFID tag encoding over a network to the system.

8. The method of claim 4 wherein the privilege provides for operation once the system is operational or enabled.

9. An apparatus for emulating a physical RFID tag, the apparatus comprising:

a machine readable memory configured to store an RFID tag encoding;

a communications device operatively connected to the machine readable memory, the communications device configured to communicate the RFID tag encoding to a system such that the apparatus provides for emulating the physical RFID tag without emulating an RFID transponder signal.