Operating systems for an RFID tag

• US 9,953,193 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2017
• Issued: 04/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TEGO LLC
• Original Assignee: TEGO LLC
• Inventors: Butler, Timothy P., Mats, Leonid, Puleston, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Labaze, Edwyn
• Application Number:
  US15/610,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20170270323A1
• Time in Patent Office: 327 Days
• Field of Search: 235492, 235380, 235375, 235487, 235451
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisions for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• 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 19/07309 Means for preventing undesired reading or writing from or onto record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• 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 7/10198 setting parameters for the interrogator, e.g. programming parameters and operating modes

Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a wireless computing device, comprising an antenna; an analog block for receiving and transmitting an RF signal through the antenna, wherein the energy from the received RF signal provides power to the wireless computing device; and a data processing and controller block for data management, wherein the data processing and controller block comprises: (i) a first program memory adapted to store a first set of instructions comprising a system call adapted to perform at least one function, and (ii) a second program memory adapted to store a second set of instructions comprising an instruction to call the system call, wherein the data processing and controller block is adapted to execute the first set of instructions and the second set of instructions,

wherein the antenna, analog block, and data processing and controller block are mounted on a single substrate.

Claims

1. A system for a wireless computing device, comprising:

an antenna;

an analog block for receiving and transmitting an RF signal through the antenna, wherein the energy from the received RF signal provides power to the wireless computing device; and

a data processing and controller block for data management, wherein the data processing and controller block comprises;

i. a first program memory adapted to store a first set of instructions comprising a system call adapted to perform at least one function, and

ii. a second program memory adapted to store a second set of instructions comprising an instruction to call the system call,

wherein the data processing and controller block is adapted to execute the first set of instructions and the second set of instructions,

wherein the antenna, analog block, and data processing and controller block are mounted on a single substrate.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instruction to call the system call causes the data processing and controller block to execute the system call to perform at least one function of the wireless computing device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the system call is initiated through an application programming interface (API).

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the API is used by the second set of instructions to call the system call of the first set of instructions.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of instructions is boot code that is accessed upon powering up the wireless computing device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of instructions is adapted to support a graphical user interface (GUI) by which functions of the wireless computing device can be managed by a human user.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the support for a graphical user interface provides a GUI template program that is utilized as a framework to an external computing device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of instructions is an object oriented instruction code.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless computing device functions as a portable memory device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of instructions is adapted to respond to trigger commands received in the RF signal.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first program memory and the second program memory is read-only memory.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein at least one of the first program memory and second program memory is programmable memory.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one program memory is adapted to be programmable for storage of a set of instructions to implement a user-specified application that is programmable by a user.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless computing device further comprises an energy storage device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein energy from the energy storage device at least in part powers the wireless computing device.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the energy received from the RF signal is in part stored in the energy storage device.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the energy from the received RF signal triggers the wireless computing device to perform a function.