Method of Conducting Two-Way Communication Between Smartphone and Hygiene Apparatus
AssigneeOP-Hygiene IP GmbH
InventorsHeiner OPHARDT, Robert Bradley
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Abstract
A method of conducting two-way communication between a first NFC enabled device and a second NFC enabled device. The method includes transmitting a write command from the first NFC enabled device to the second NFC enabled device. A silent mode of the second NFC enabled device, in which the presence of the second NFC enabled device is hidden from the first NFC enabled device, is then activated. While the silent mode is activated, the second NFC enabled device processes the write command and writes a response in a memory of the second NFC enabled device. The silent mode is then deactivated, which triggers the first NFC enabled device to read the response in the memory of the second NFC enabled device.
Claims20
A memory having recorded thereon statements and instructions for execution by an NFC enabled device, said statements and instructions comprising:
- code that allows the NFC enabled device to detect the presence of a separate NFC enabled device;
- code that causes the NFC enabled device to transmit a first message to the separate NFC enabled device;
- code that causes the NFC enabled device to recognize when the presence of the separate NFC enabled device is no longer detectable via NFC;
- and
- code that causes the NFC enabled device, upon subsequently detecting the presence of the separate NFC enabled device, to read a second message in a memory of the separate NFC enabled device.
A memory having recorded thereon statements and instructions for execution by an NFC enabled device, said statements and instructions comprising:
- code that causes the NFC enabled device to process a first message received from a separate NFC enabled device;
- code that activates a silent mode of an NFC chip of the NFC enabled device, after the first message has been received from the separate NFC enabled device;
- code that causes the NFC enabled device to write a second message in a memory of the NFC chip;
- and
- code that deactivates the silent mode of the NFC chip after the second message is written in the memory of the NFC chip;
- wherein the silent mode of the NFC chip is a mode in which the presence of the NFC chip is hidden from the separate NFC enabled device.
A computer readable medium storing a computer program that is executable by at least one processor, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for implementing a method of conducting two-way communication between a first NFC enabled device and a second NFC enabled device, the method comprising:
- when the first NFC enabled device is placed in proximity to the second NFC enabled device, transmitting a first message from the first NFC enabled device to the second NFC enabled device;
- activating a silent mode of the second NFC enabled device after receipt of the first message;
- using the second NFC enabled device to process the first message and write a second message in a memory of the second NFC enabled device;
- deactivating the silent mode of the second NFC enabled device;
- and
- using the first NFC enabled device to read the second message in the memory of the second NFC enabled device;
- wherein the presence of the second NFC enabled device is hidden from the first NFC enabled device when the second NFC enabled device is in the silent mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.