Technique to authenticate in a mobile application using near-field communication
AssigneeGenesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsDavid Beilis, Adrian Lee-Kwen
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Abstract
A method for operating a mobile communication appliance enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) has steps for (a) positioning the communication appliance and an article associated with a person, the article enabled for NFC and storing a unique identifier, within a near-field threshold; (b) acquiring by the communication appliance through NFC the unique digital identifier from the article; and (c) using the identifier to select and initiate a particular functionality of the communication appliance.
Claims18
A method for operating a mobile communication appliance enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC), comprising the steps of:
- (a) positioning the communication appliance and an article associated with a person, the article enabled for NFC and storing a unique identifier, within a near-field threshold;
- (b) acquiring by the communication appliance through NFC the unique digital identifier from the article;
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- (c) using the identifier to select and initiate a particular functionality of the communication appliance.
A communication system comprising:
- an article enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) and storing a unique identifier associated with a person;
- a mobile communication appliance NFC enabled, executing software from a non-transitory physical medium;
- wherein bringing the article and communication appliance within an NFC threshold distance enables the appliance to acquire the unique identifier, which it uses to select and initiate specific functionality.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.