Communications methods, methods of forming a reader, wireless communications readers, and wireless communications systems

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8670715
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13591576

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Communications methods, methods of forming a reader, wireless communications readers, and wireless communications systems are described in some embodiments. In one embodiment, a communications method includes associating a plurality of remote communications devices with a plurality of objects located within a wireless communications range of a reader having a first configuration, providing one of the remote communications device within a wireless communications range of a reader having a second configuration, wherein the wireless communications range of the reader having the second configuration is less than the wireless communications range of the reader having the first configuration, and during the presence of the one of the remote communications devices within the wireless communications range of the reader having the second configuration, implementing communications between the reader having the second configuration and only the one of the remote communications devices.

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  • ROUND ROCK RESEARCH, LLC

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Tuttle, John R Longmont, US 233 13022

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