Bob,
Having been down this road in a past life, this looks like a team of patent
snakes cobbling together numerous individual claim parts so as to confuse the
Patent Examiners into granting what used to be called a "Sales" Patent.
You probably will have to argue that this is nothing more than a "
ChoJin,
Commercial 13.56 MHz RFID systems don't normally use a receiver in the
traditional sense to recover the tag data.
RFID manufacturers catering to the retail industry consider Tag Readers to be a
necessary give-away that allows them to sell millions of tags, so cost is always
driven towards