Network printer document interface using electronic tags

• US 6,340,931 B1
• Filed: 04/20/2001
• Issued: 01/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bicameral LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Want, Roy, Fishkin, Kenneth P., Harrison, Beverly L., Gujar, Anuj Uday
• Primary Examiner(s): LA, ANH V
• Application Number:
  US09/839,667
• Time in Patent Office: 277 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.1, 340/572.4, 340/572.7, 340/572.8, 340/572.5, 340/505, 340/518, 340/534, 340/5.2, 340/10.1, 340/10.6, 235/385, 235/384, 235/382, 235/487, 710/200, 713/200, 380/23, 380/25, 380/3, 380/4, 380/49, 380/51, 380/55, 347/19
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• 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 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10079 the collision being resolved in the spatial domain, e.g. temporary shields for blindfolding the interrogator in specific directions

Abstract

A system for identifying multiple electronic tags that include a plurality of electronic tags attachable to a single object, each electronic tag having a unique identifier. One or more electronic tag readers are configured to read the unique identifier of each electronic tag within the non-overlapping readable region, and a computing system is connected to the electronic tag reader to provide digital services in response to reading the unique identifier of each electronic tag.

Claims

1. A printing control method using multiple electronic tags presented to an electronic tag reader connected to a network printer, the method comprising the steps of

providing a first input from a first electronic tag, the first electronic tag having a first identification number that is associated with a network accessible document, and

providing a second input from a second electronic tag after provision of the first input, the second electronic tag having a second identification number that invokes printing of the network accessible document associated with the first identification number.

2. A printing control method using multiple electronic tags presented to an electronic tag reader connected to a network printer, the method comprising the steps of

providing a first input from a first electronic tag, the first electronic tag having a first identification number that is associated with printing to a network printer, and

providing a second input from a second electronic tag after provision of the first input, the second electronic tag having a second identification number that invokes printing of a network accessible document associated with the second identification number by the network printer associated with the first identification number.