System, device and method for keeping track of portable items by means of a mobile electronic device
Active Publication Date: 2012-06-14
SONY CORP
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[0004]The present invention relates to a system, a device and a method using radio-frequency identification (RFID) to wirelessly check if portable items are to be stored or not in a handbag or pocket, and / or to check if the appropriate items are present or not in the handbag or pocket, by using a mobile electronic device, both automatically and / or manually, i.e. by manual initiation from the user when required. This reduces the risk of forgetting appropriate items to be brought from one place to another when necessary and / or desired.
[0012]The invention simplifies keeping track of portable items that are for daily, or at least frequent use by the usage and handling of a mobile electronic device by using RFID data communication. Furthermore, the invention achieves this advantage in a cheap and cost-efficient way by using RFID data communication due to the fact that RFID tags are cheap and easy to mount on portable items, in general small items, and to place in suitable positions and locations. This invention also eliminates the need of separate RFID readers, whereby for example mobile phones are used for this instead.
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This behaviour has increased the number of items to be brought for different needs given raise to problems of forgetting one or more items when going from one place to another, e.g. when leaving home for work or training.
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[0018]Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are several methods of identification, but the most common is to store a serial number that identifies a person or object, and / or other information, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna (the chip and the antenna together are called an RFID transponder or an REID tag). The antenna enables the chip to transmit the identification information to a RFID reader. The reader converts the radio waves reflected / sent back from the RFID tag into digital information that can then be passed on to and for example used in computers. A typical RFID system consists of at least one RFID tag made up of a microchip with an antenna, and an RFID interrogator or reader with an antenna. The reader sends out electromagnetic waves and the tag antenna is tuned to receive these waves. The chip then modulates the waves that the tag sends back to the re...
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The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications, and in particular to a system for near field wireless data communication using RFID for checking whether a portable item is to be brought by a user from one place to another or not by using a mobile electronic device comprising a radio communication device and a method for achieving this.
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TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications, and in particular to a system for wireless data communication for checking if useful items are to be stored in a handbag or not by using a mobile electronic device comprising a radio communication device and a method for achieving this.DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART[0002]Nowadays, persons, both men and women, are very busy, leaving home with a lot of portable items, e.g. keys for their house, car and / or work, purse, cellular / mobile phones, laptop computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA:s), credit and point cards for buying food and other stuff, different types of membership cards, e.g. for training, commuter cards, ID cards and many more different items to be used for different needs and occasions, i.e. at work, when shopping, at a party etc. Today, the use of mobile devices, e.g. cellular / mobile phones, laptop computers and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA:s), that communicate...
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