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US 10,945,110 B2Granted
Mobile terminal and method involving near field communication
AssigneeAq Corporation
InventorSang Hoon Lee
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive incoming RF signals.
Claims31
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a display;
- an RF antenna;
- a near field communication (NFC) module electrically connected to the RF antenna and configured to perform processing for NFC communication with external NFC-enabled devices;
- and
- a controller chip configured to control hardware and operation of the mobile terminal,
- wherein upon receipt of a first RF signal from a first NFC-enabled device via an NFC tagging between the mobile terminal and the first NFC-enabled device, the NFC module is configured to process the first RF signal to obtain a first command of the first NFC-enabled device that requests a responsive action by the mobile terminal,
- wherein subsequent to obtaining the first command, the NFC module is configured to communicate to the controller chip regarding the first command of the first NFC-enabled device,
- wherein upon receipt of the first command from the NFC module, the controller chip is configured to do a processing to perform the responsive action requested by the first command of the first NFC-enabled device and further configured to send a processing result of the controller chip to the NFC module,
- wherein in response to the processing result from the controller chip, the NFC module is configured to generate a responsive RF signal based on the processing result of the controller chip, and the RF antenna is configured to transmit the responsive RF signal to the first NFC-enabled device,
- wherein the mobile terminal is configured to display, on the display, information indicative of the processing result of the controller chip.
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A method of using a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- providing a mobile terminal comprising a display, an RF antenna, a near field communication (NFC) module and a controller chip, the NFC module being configured to perform processing for NFC communication, wherein the controller chip is configured to control hardware and operation of the mobile phone;
- and
- tagging, with the mobile terminal, a first NFC-enabled device, which causes:
- the RF antenna receives from the first NFC-enabled device a first RF signal that carries a first command of the first NFC-enabled device,
- in response to receipt of the first RF signal, the NFC module processes the first RF signal to obtain the first command of the first NFC-enabled device that requests a responsive action by the mobile terminal,
- subsequent to obtaining the first command requesting the responsive action by the mobile terminal, the NFC module communicates to the controller chip regarding the first command of the first NFC-enabled device,
- in response to the NFC module's communication, the controller chip does a processing to perform the responsive action requested by the first command of the first NFC-enabled device and subsequently sends a processing result of the controller chip to the NFC module,
- in response to the processing result from the controller chip, the NFC module generates a responsive RF signal based on the processing result of the controller chip, and the RF antenna transmits the responsive RF signal to the first NFC-enabled device, and
- wherein the mobile terminal displays, on the display, information indicative of the processing result of the controller chip.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.