SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERMITTING MOVEMENT OF AN OBJECT OUTSIDE A PREDETERMINED PROXIMITY DISTANCE THRESHOLD

• US 20160171872A1
• Filed: 02/22/2016
• Published: 06/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: First Principals, Inc.
• Original Assignee: First Principals, Inc.
• Inventors: Raniere, Keith A.
• Granted Patent: US 10,032,358 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/14 by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method for managing a location of at least one object. The method includes affixing an RFID tag on an object, providing a communication structure on the RFID tag, providing a device capable of communicating with the communication structure of the RFID tag when the RFID tag, determining, by the device, a range of the object based on signal levels from the RFID tag and displaying, by the device, a signal strength indicator representing the range of the object.

Claims

1. A method for managing a location of at least one object comprising:

affixing an RFID tag on an object;

providing a communication structure on the RFID tag;

providing a device capable of communicating with the communication structure of the RFID tag when the RFID tag;

determining, by the device, a range of the object based on signal levels from the RFID tag; and

displaying, by the device, a signal strength indicator representing the range of the object.