Systems and methods for providing quality of service to RFID

• US 8,558,673 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Golba LLC
• Original Assignee: Golba LLC
• Inventors: Moshfeghi, Mehran
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghayour, Mohammad
• Assistant Examiner(s): RUSHING, MARK S
• Application Number:
  US13/615,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20130015957A1
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 340/568.1, 340/10, 340/572, 370/314, 370/329, 370/348, 370/455, 709/207
• US Class Current: 340/10.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10009 sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm, e.g. radio-waves or microwaves
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10227 loading programming parameters or programs into the interrogator, e.g. for configuring the interrogator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/10 Flow control; Congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2433 Allocation of priorities to traffic types
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2491 Mapping quality of service [QoS] requirements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/10 Flow control between communication endpoints
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for providing Quality of service to RFID. In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of providing quality of service in an RFID network comprising storing RFID priority information corresponding to the RFID network, wherein the RFID network comprises one or more tags and one or more readers mapping the RFID priority information into priority information corresponding to a second network.

Claims

1. A method of providing quality of service for upstream data in a first RFID network comprising a set of tags and a set of readers, the first RFID network communicatively coupled to a second network, the method comprising:

at a reader, receiving data from a plurality of tags;

retrieving a reader priority level corresponding to the reader;

for each tag;

retrieving a tag priority level corresponding to the tag; and

combining the retrieved reader priority level and the retrieved tag priority level to calculate a priority level for the received data from the tag; and

sending, to the second network, the received data from the plurality of tags based on the calculated priority level for the received data from each tag.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein combining the retrieved reader priority level and the retrieved tag priority level comprises:

selecting a function from a plurality of functions; and

utilizing the selected function to combine the reader and tag priority levels.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the function is one of maximum, minimum, average, median, and sum of the tag priority and the reader priority.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the function selects the reader priority level as the priority level when combining the reader and the tag priority levels.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the function selects the tag priority level as the priority level when combining the reader and the tag priority levels.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein combining the retrieved reader priority level and the retrieved tag priority level comprises applying a first weight to the tag priority level and a second different weight to the reader priority level.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the tag and reader priority levels are combined through an RFID application software within the RFID reader, wherein the RFID application software selects one of a plurality of functions to combine the tag and reader priority levels.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the reader priority level is based on an importance of data accessed by the reader, a time, or an application type that is supported by the reader.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the reader priority level is based on a location of the reader.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising:

updating the location of the reader via GPS; and

setting the reader priority level based on a set of pre-assigned location priorities.

11. A system of providing quality of service for upstream data, the system comprising:

an RFID first network; and

a second network communicatively coupled to the RFID first network;

the RFID first network comprising;

a set of tags; and

a set of readers, each reader configured to;

receive data from a plurality of tags;

retrieve a reader priority level corresponding to the reader;

retrieve, for each tag, a tag priority level corresponding to the tag;

combine, for each tag, the retrieved reader priority level and the retrieved tag priority level to calculate a priority level for the received data from the tag; and

send, to the second network, the received data from the plurality of tags based on the calculated priority level for the received data from each tag.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein combining the retrieved reader priority level and the retrieved tag priority level comprises:

selecting a function from a plurality of functions; and

utilizing the selected function to combine the reader and tag priority levels.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the function is one of maximum, minimum, average, median, and sum of the tag priority and the reader priority.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the function selects the reader priority level as the priority level when combining the reader and the tag priority levels.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the function selects the tag priority level as the priority level when combining the reader and the tag priority levels.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein combining the retrieved reader priority level and the retrieved tag priority level comprises applying a first weight to the tag priority level and a second different weight to the reader priority level.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein each reader further comprises an RFID application stored within the reader, wherein the tag and reader priority levels are combined through an RFID application software, wherein the RFID application software selects one of a plurality of functions to combine the tag and reader priority levels.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein each reader priority level is based on an importance of data accessed by the reader, a time, or an application type that is supported by the reader.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein each reader priority level is based on a location of the reader.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein each reader is further configured to:

update the location of the reader via GPS; and

set the reader priority level based on a set of pre-assigned location priorities.