Abstract: A donation may be made through a mobile platform. In some instances, a particular series of pages may be provided through a mobile device to enable a user to donate in a relatively small number of steps. The series of pages may allow a user who has previously registered with the platform to relatively quickly identify a non-profit organization to which to make a donation, submit an amount of funds for the donation, and view feedback information related to donation activities associated with the user. Donation activity data from a plurality of devices may also be analyzed to generate donation information. In some instances, the donation information may provide information regarding types of donations that are being made, times and location of donations, types of users that are making donations, and so on.

Abstract: A system and method for partially pre-programming RFID labels. Common data associated with items to which RFID labels are to be applied is pre-programmed into the labels. Item specific data is programmed by a RFID label programmer in the application process.

Abstract: The invention is related to an RFID applicator that may include a peeler member (140) including a peel end (142), the peeler member being configured to cause an RFID label (102) to peel away from a web (110) when the web passes around the peel end; a label tamp assembly (150) configured to receive the RFID label and to move the RFID label into contact with an item (104) on which the RFID label is to be applied; and a label reject assembly having an extendable path altering mechanism (500) located proximate to said peel end, configured to advance from a retracted position to an extended position to alter a path of the web around said peel end, and wherein said extendable path altering mechanism is positioned and dimensioned to inhibit an RFID label from peeling away from said web.

Abstract: A system and method for partially pre-programming RFID labels. Common data associated with items to which RFID labels are to be applied is pre-programmed into the labels. Item specific data is programmed by a RFID label programmer in the application process.

Abstract: A roller (300) for a radio frequency identification (RFID) label (102) applicator (100) and an RFID label applicator including the same. The roller includes an IC relief (328) for avoiding application of undue stress to the ICs of RFID labels carried on a web of material to items to which the labels are to be affixed.

Abstract: A radio frequency identification (RFID) device programming system and method may be used to provide pre-programmed RFID devices, for example, as a roll of RFID devices that may be later applied to articles or items. The programming system may include a plurality of RFID probes configured to apply programming signals to the RFID devices and a RFID programmer connected to the probes and configured to generate the programming signals. The programming system may also include a web positioning mechanism configured to position a web including the RFID devices such that the group of RFID devices is positioned in within a programming range of the probes. A controller may be configured to control the web positioning mechanism such that sequential groups of the RFID devices are programmed.

Abstract: The invention relates to an RFID label applicator (100) may include a peeler member (140) having a peel end (142), the peeler member being configured to cause an RFID label (102) to peel away from a web (110) when the web passes around the peel end; and a label tamp assembly (150) having a receiving surface (612) configured to receive the RFID label and to move it into contact with an item (104) on which the RFID label is to be applied, the label tamp assembly having at least one forward opening in a portion of the receiving surface away from the peeler member and a plurality of rearward openings in a portion of the receiving surface proximate the peeler member, wherein at least one of the forward or rearward openings is configured to draw in air such that a leading portion of the RFID label is substantially secured.

Abstract: The invention is related to an RFID applicator that may include a peeler member (140) including a peel end (142), the peeler member being configured to cause an RFID label (102) to peel away from a web (110) when the web passes around the peel end; a label tamp assembly (150) configured to receive the RFID label and to move the RFID label into contact with an item (104) on which the RFID label is to be applied; and a label reject assembly having an extendable path altering mechanism (500) located proximate to said peel end, configured to advance from a retracted position to an extended position to alter a path of the web around said peel end, and wherein said extendable path altering mechanism is positioned and dimensioned to inhibit an RFID label from peeling away from said web.

Abstract: The invention relates to an RFID label applicator that may include a peeler body portion having a peel end, the body portion being configured to cause an RFID label to peel away from a web when the web passes around the peel end. The body portion may define a cavity having an RFID programming antenna located therein that is configured to transmit programming signals to the RFID label prior to its passing around the peel end. The system may also include an extendable path altering mechanism configured to advance from a retracted position to an extended position to alter a path of the web around said peel end, and wherein the extendable path altering mechanism is positioned and dimensioned to inhibit a RFID label from peeling away from the web when in the extended position.

Abstract: Monitoring a series of products of the kind in which the presence of foreign bodies in the product being monitored is detected by the characteristic magnetic field phase difference each material exhibits. The signal generated by a satisfactory product having no foreign body in it is used as the datum for judging whether the next subsequent product is free from a foreign body or not.