JMX administration of RFID edge server

• US 7,495,568 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2005
• Issued: 02/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Banerjee, Ashok
• Primary Examiner(s): TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER
• Application Number:
  US11/233,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20070044094A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,251 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.1, 340/572.3, 340/10.1, 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/217, 709/227
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network

Abstract

An RFID edge server using an application server allows for improvements in an RFID system.

Claims

1. An RFID edge server to associate with multiple RFID readers at a single location, the RFID edge server including an application server which is adapted to use Java Management Extensions (JMX) administration;

wherein the RFID readers are connected to the RFID edge server using TCP/IP socket connections; and

wherein the RFID edge server uses multiple access threads to service the TCP/IP socket connections to the RFID readers; and

wherein there are more TCP/IP socket connections than access threads, such that at least one of the access threads services more than one TCP/IP socket.

2. The RFID edge server of claim 1, wherein the JMX administration can be used to manage resources related to the RFID edge server.

3. The RFID edge server of claim 1, wherein the JMX administration uses MBeans to set configuration for the RFID edge server.

4. The RFID edge server of claim 1, wherein an administration server at the RFID edge server can be used to set the configuration of the RFID edge server.

5. The RFID edge server of claim 4, wherein an administration console can be used to manage the RFID edge server.

6. The RFID edge server of claim 1, wherein the JMX administration can be used to manage the connections with the multiple RFID readers.

7. The RFID edge server of claim 1, wherein the JMX administration can be used to manage the RFID edge server remotely.

8. A method comprising:

at an RFID edge server, associating the RFID edge server with multiple RFID readers at a single location; and

administering the RFID edge server using JMX administration;

wherein the RFID readers are connected to the RFID edge server using TCP/IP socket connections; and

wherein the RFID edge server uses multiple access threads to service the TCP/IP socket connections to the RFID readers; and

wherein there are more TCP/IP socket connections than access threads, such that at least one of the access threads services more than one TCP/IP socket.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the JMX administration can be used to manage resources related to the RFID edge server.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the JMX administration uses MBeans to set configuration for the RFID edge server.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein an administration server at the RFID edge server can be used to set the configuration of the RFID edge server.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein an administration console can be used to manage the RFID edge server.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the JMX administration can be used to manage the connections with the multiple RFID readers.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the JMX administration can be used to manage the RFID edge server remotely.

15. An RFID edge server to associate with multiple RFID readers at a single location, the RFID edge server including an application server which is adapted to use Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standards-based administration;

wherein the RFID readers are connected to the RFID edge server using TCP/IP socket connections; and

wherein the RFID edge server uses multiple access threads to service the TCP/IP socket connections to the RFID readers; and

wherein there are more TCP/IP socket connections than access threads, such that at least one of the access threads services more than one TCP/IP socket.

16. The RFID edge server of claim 15, wherein the J2EE standards-based administration is JMX administration.

17. The RFID edge server of claim 15, wherein the J2EE standards-based administration can be used to manage resources related to the RFID edge server.

18. The RFID edge server of claim 15, wherein the J2EE standards-based administration uses MBeans to set configuration for the RFID edge server.

19. The RFID edge server of claim 15, wherein an administration server at the RFID edge server can be used to set the configuration of the RFID edge server.

20. The RFID edge server of claim 19, wherein an administration console can be used to manage the RFID edge server.

21. The RFID edge server of claim 15, wherein the J2EE standards-based administration can be used to manage the connections with the multiple RFID readers.

22. The RFID edge server of claim 15, wherein the J2EE standards-based administration can be used to manage the RFID edge server remotely.