METHOD OF COMMUNICATION OF AN ACTIVE SMART RFID LABEL WITH A USER INTERROGATOR AND A PROFESSIONAL INTERROGATOR

• US 20120112888A1
• Filed: 07/05/2010
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ams AG (Ams-Osram AG)
• Original Assignee: ams AG (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Kunc, Vinko, Vodopivec, Andrej
• Granted Patent: US 9,235,736 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisious for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0717 the sensor being capable of sensing environmental conditions such as temperature history or pressure
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• 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

Abstract

A method of communication of an active smart RFID label with a user interrogator and a professional interrogator, said professional interrogator enabling a service provider to fully control said active smart RFID label and by means of which interrogator a content and a form of an extract of data, which are collected by a sensor, which is comprised of in the label, as well as a location within the label as location of said extract of data being collected by said label sensor, said location being accessible by the user interrogator are determined.

A service user gets concisely acquainted with the service provided by the label by means of a widely used interrogator, whereat he cannot influence the data contained in the label or even its functioning neither needs any additional knowledge to communicate with said label.

Claims

1. A method of communication of an active smart RFID label with a user interrogator and a professional interrogator,

said professional interrogator enabling a service provider to fully control said active smart RFID label

in that he can access all data therein,

load data into it and

set parameters of its operation,

characterized in

that the professional interrogator determines a content and a form of an extract of data, which are collected by a sensor, which is comprised of in the active smart RFID label,

and that the professional interrogator determines a location within the active smart RFID label as the location of said extract of data being collected by said label sensor,

said location being accessible by the user interrogator.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, characterized in that the user interrogator is a portable telephone provided with an NFC module.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, characterized in that the user interrogator is a personal digital assistant given by the service provider to the user to use.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the user interrogator operates at a frequency of 13.56 MHz.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the user interrogator operates in the UHF frequency range.

6. The method as recited in any of preceding claims, characterized in that said active smart RFID label recognizes an interrogator as a user interrogator or professional interrogator by an RFID protocol used by said interrogator.

7. The method as recited in any of preceding claims, characterized in that said active smart RFID label recognizes an interrogator that established a contact communication with it, as professional interrogator.

8. The method as recited in any of preceding claims 1 to 5, characterized in that said active smart RFID label recognizes an interrogator as a user interrogator or a professional interrogator by a command received from said interrogator.

9. The method as recited in any of preceding claims 1 to 5, characterized in that said active smart RFID label recognizes an interrogator as a user interrogator or professional interrogator by a frequency, at which said interrogator is in touch with it.

10. The method as recited in any of preceding claims, characterized in that the professional interrogator determines a location in said active smart RFID label, into which the service user can enter his demand.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, characterized in that the service provider reads a user'"'"'s demand by means of the professional interrogator and enters his decision on the user'"'"'s demand into said active smart RFID label.

12. The method according to any of preceding claims, characterized in that the professional interrogator determines a location within said active smart RFID label, into which location the service user can enter data considered to be relevant.