OPERATION METHOD OF AN RFID TAG, OPERATION METHOD OF AN RFID READER, RFID TAG, AND RFID READER

• US 20120112889A1
• Filed: 07/23/2010
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Mo, Hee Sook, Quan, Cheng Hao, Hwang, Jae Gak, Pyo, Cheol Sig, Chae, Jong Suk
• Application Number:
  US13/383,545
• Publication Number:
  US 20120112889A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation

Abstract

The present invention is enables the high-speed download of a large volume of data stored in a tag memory without a remarkable change in conventional wireless communication techniques. According to one aspect of the present invention, an RFID tag comprises; a transmitting unit for transmitting a download command for instructing the download of tag data stored in a user memory bank of the RFID tag; and a receiving unit for receiving, from the RFID tag, tag data in a plurality of record block units, each of which is smaller than the size of the memory bank.

Claims

1. An operation method of an RFID tag, comprising:

storing tag data in a user memory bank per unit of a plurality of record blocks having sizes smaller than the user memory bank;

receiving a download command including an index indicating any one of the plurality of record blocks from an RFID reader; and

transmitting the tag data stored in up to all record blocks in the memory bank from the record block having the index.

2. The operation method of an RFID tag of claim 1, wherein each record block includes an index area storing the index, a record area storing the tag data, and an error code area storing an error detection code for checking a transmission error of each record block.

3. The operation method of an RFID tag of claim 2, further comprising when the RFID reader requests retransmission of a record block determined as the transmission error by the error detection code in each record block, retransmitting only the record block requested to be retransmitted using the index.

4. An operation method of an RFID reader, comprising:

transmitting a download command including an index indicating any one of a plurality of record blocks having sizes smaller than a user memory bank, which are included in the user memory bank of an RFID tag; and

receiving tag data stored in all record blocks having indexes in the user memory bank from a record block having the indicated index from the RFID tag per unit of the record block.

5. The operation method of an RFID reader of claim 4, wherein each record block includes an index area storing the index, a record area storing the tag data, and an error code area storing an error detection code for checking a transmission error of each record block.

6. The operation method of an RFID reader of claim 5, further comprising checking whether or not each record block has the transmission error by using the received error detection code in each record block.

7. The operation method of an RFID reader of claim 6, wherein the checking includes requesting retransmission of the record block determined as the transmission error to the RFID tag by using the index of the record block determined as the transmission error.

8. An RFID tag, comprising:

a memory unit including a memory bank, which is divided into a plurality of record blocks having sizes smaller than the memory bank and storing tag data; and

a transmitting unit transmitting the tag data per unit of the record block in response to a download command of an RFID reader.

9. The RFID reader of claim 8, wherein the plurality of record blocks are sequentially indexed, the download command of the RFID reader includes an index indicating any one of the plurality of record blocks, and the transmitting unit transmits the tag data stored in all record blocks having subsequent indexes in the memory bank from the record block having the index.

10. The RFID reader of claim 9, wherein each record block includes an index area storing the index and a record area storing the tag data.

11. The RFID reader of claim 8, wherein when the RFID reader requests retransmission of the record block determined as the transmission error by determination of the transmission error, the transmitting unit retransmits only the record block requested to be retransmitted.

12. The RFID reader of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of record blocks is indexed,

each of the record blocks includes an index area storing the index, a record area storing the tag data, and an error code area storing an error detection code for checking a transmission error of each record block,

the RFID reader requests retransmission of the record block determined as the transmission error by the error detection code in each record block, and

the transmitting unit retransmits only the record block requested to be requested using the index.

13. The RFID reader of claim 8, wherein until transmission of the tag data by the download command is completed, the RFID reader does not react to a command of another RFID reader.

14. The RFID reader of claim 8, wherein all record blocks in the memory bank are formatted in accordance with a clear command of the RFID reader.

15. The RFID reader of claim 8, wherein the memory bank is a user memory bank and the memory unit further includes an EPC memory bank storing a code for identifying an object attached with the RFID tag, a TID memory bank storing an ID identifying the RFID tag, and a reserved memory bank.

16. An RFID reader, comprising:

a transmitting unit transmitting a download command for directing downloading tag data stored in a user memory bank of an RFID tag; and

a receiving unit receiving the tag data from the RFID tag per unit of a plurality of record blocks having sizes smaller than the user memory bank.

17. The RFID reader of claim 16, wherein the plurality of record blocks are sequentially indexed, the download command includes an index indicating any one of the plurality of record blocks, and the receiving unit receives the tag data stored in all record blocks having subsequent indexes in the memory bank from the record block having the indicated index.

18. The RFID reader of claim 17, wherein each record block includes an index area storing the index and a record area storing the tag data.

19. The RFID reader of claim 16, further comprising a checking unit checks whether or not each received record block has a transmission error.

20. The RFID reader of claim 19, wherein each of the plurality of record blocks is indexed, each of the record blocks includes an index area storing the index, a record area storing the tag data, and an error code area storing an error detection code for checking a transmission error of each record block, and

the checking unit checks the transmission error by using the error detection code in each record block and the RFID reader requests retransmission of the record block determined as the transmission error by using the index.