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The subject invention relates to systems and methods that distribute electronic data, such as Electronic Product Code (EPC) data, obtained from RFID tags by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and/or servers to agents within an agent-based control system. The systems and methods employ a c

The subject invention relates to systems and methods that distribute electronic data, such as Electronic Product Code (EPC) data, obtained from RFID tags by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and/or servers to agents within an agent-based control system. The systems and methods employ a component that collects, filters, processes, and stores electronic product data. The component collects electronic product data through corresponding reader and/or server interfaces. This data can be filtered to accept particular electronic product data, processed to a format suitable to the agents, and stored. Such storage can include delineating the electronic product data across rows of a table by electronic product code and across columns of the table by various types of data. Upon receiving a subscription and/or request from an agent for electronic product data, the component can obtain and convey the information to the agent.

대표청구항 ▼

What is claimed is: 1. A system that facilitates distribution of electronic product data, comprising:a first component that stores structured electronic product data received from one or more RFID readers that obtain the electronic product data from RFID tags;a second component that receives a query

What is claimed is: 1. A system that facilitates distribution of electronic product data, comprising:a first component that stores structured electronic product data received from one or more RFID readers that obtain the electronic product data from RFID tags;a second component that receives a query from an agent of an agent-based control system for at least a portion of the stored electronic product data, the agent is responsible for local decision making with respect to a portion of a manufacturing process and cooperates with at least one disparate agent to provide desirable global behavior of the agent-based control system; anda third component that provides the portion of the electronic product data to the agent.