Method and System for Storing, Retrieving, and Managing Data for Tags

• US 20180067949A1
• Filed: 11/14/2017
• Published: 03/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motedata Corporation
• Original Assignee: Motedata Incorporated
• Inventors: Lupoli, Peter, Kesan, Jay, Cappello, Peter R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,459,930 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/211 Schema design and management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24564 Applying rules; Deductive queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/81 Indexing, e.g. XML tags; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management

Abstract

This invention relates generally to a method and system for storing, retrieving, and managing data for tags that are associated in some manner to any type of object. More particularly, the present invention writes data to these tags, reads data from these tags, and manages data that is written to and/or read from these tags. In addition, the invention accesses and/or stores data associated with tags from or into repositories, constructs and maintains data structures from these repositories and responds to queries using the data structures.

Claims

1. A method for accessing and organizing tag-related data, the method being implemented by at least one computer including one or more processors and comprising:

accessing data associated with one or more tags from one or more data repositories, the one or more tags having one or more tag identifiers, the data associated with the one or more tags including location information of the one or more tags;

linking together at least one portion of the accessed data that is associated with at least one of the one or more tag identifiers, to provide location information of an object using the location information of the one or more tags;

determining two or more tag identifiers that satisfy a query or keyword search; and

ranking the determined two or more tag identifiers based on tag references of the determined two or more tag identifiers.