EAS system with common control station for different personality local stations
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1. A central control station for use with different personality local stations in an electronic article surveillance system comprising:
- one or more ports each adapted to interface with a local station;
hardware equipment and software programming having different parts associated with controlling different personality local stations; and
a central processing unit for coordinating operation of said hardware equipment and software programming such that a given local station interfaced with a given one of said one or more ports is controlled based on the parts of the hardware equipment and software programming associated with that given local station.
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Abstract
An EAS central station has a number of input/output ports each for interfacing with a different personality local station. Hardware equipment and software programming of the central station have parts associated with the different personality local stations and a central processing unit selects the part of the hardware equipment and software programming associated with a local station.
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1. A central control station for use with different personality local stations in an electronic article surveillance system comprising:
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one or more ports each adapted to interface with a local station; hardware equipment and software programming having different parts associated with controlling different personality local stations; and a central processing unit for coordinating operation of said hardware equipment and software programming such that a given local station interfaced with a given one of said one or more ports is controlled based on the parts of the hardware equipment and software programming associated with that given local station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An EAS system comprising:
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one or more different personality local stations, each local station having associated therewith a transmitter antenna assembly for transmitting signals into an interrogation zone and a receiver antenna assembly for receiving signals from the interrogation zone; and a central control station for controlling said one or more local stations, said central control station comprising;
one or more ports each adapted to interface with a local station;
hardware equipment and software programming having different parts associated with controlling different personality local stations; and
a central processing unit for coordinating the operation of said hardware equipment and software programming such that a given local station interfaced with a given one of said one or more ports is controlled based on the parts of the hardware equipment and software programming associated with that given local station. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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