Enabling/enhancing a feature of an electronic device using radio frequency identification technology

US7057492B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Motorola, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Miles R. Jackson · North Barrington, US
• Joseph F. Wodka · Mountain View, US
• Timothy J. Collins · Homer Glen, US
• Patrick L. Rakers · Scottsdale, US
• Mark Lill · Elgin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 6, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 6, 2006
• Expiry date: May 8, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08B13/2417
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A radio frequency identification (“RFID”) device (102) having stored thereon an expiration and a set of data bits which, when presented to a processing device (602) via a RFID reader (206), causes the processing device (602) to enable a feature that would otherwise be disabled in an electronic device (600), and disable the feature when the expiration reaches a predetermined value.