US 12,353,945 B2
Detecting equipment state via tag-reader modulations
Patrick Wall, Atlanta, GA (US); Jeffrey Radaker, Atlanta, GA (US); and Julian Bell, Decatur, GA (US)
Assigned to United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by United Parcel Service Of America, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/391,149.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/436,261, filed on Dec. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0220747 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G06K 7/08 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10366 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by computing hardware, a request for a predicted state of an apparatus, wherein the request includes an apparatus identifier for the apparatus and a state identifier for the predicted state;
identifying, by the computing hardware and based at least in part on the apparatus identifier and the state identifier, a reader device identifier and a tag identifier associated with the apparatus;
querying, by the computing hardware and based at least in part on the reader device identifier and the tag identifier, tag read data, wherein the tag read data involves a reader device associated with the reader device identifier at least one of reading or not reading a tag associated with the tag identifier during a certain period of time;
identifying, by the computing hardware and based at least in part on the state identifier, a set of rules, wherein the set of rules defines one or more predefined read characteristics associated with the reader device at least one of reading or not reading the tag that correspond to expected behavior for the apparatus;
generating, by the computing hardware processing the tag read data using the set of rules, the predicted state of the apparatus; and
communicating, by the computing hardware, the predicted state to at least one of a user computing device or a production computing system.