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Abstract

A data token with extended operational lifetime incorporates operational circuitry requiring D.C. power, a battery for supplying D.C. power to the circuitry, a power switch coupled between the battery and the circuitry, and a frequency selector for sensing remotely generated signals and for operating the switch when such signals are received so that D.C. power is applied to operate the circuitry only when the remotely generated signals are sensed in order to confine energy drain from the battery to only those periods when circuit operation is needed and extend the useful lifetime and range of the data token. The frequency selector is a crystal having a specific resonant frequency which only responds to remotely generated signals of the matching frequency. The switch is an FET switch. An integrator circuit is coupled between the frequency selector and the FET switch to smooth the D.C. voltage developed by the crystal.

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