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US 8,014,720 B2Granted
Service provisioning utilizing near field communication
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorVictor Lortz
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, and programming instructions configured to enable a device to receive provisioning data over a Near Field Communication link, and utilize the provisioning data to receive services.
Claims12
An apparatus, comprising:
- a near field communication (NFC) transceiver configured to receive provisioning data from a device via a NFC communication link designed to facilitate communication between the device and the NFC transceiver with the device and the NFC transceiver disposed at about 2 inches or less from each other, wherein the provisioning data is configured to facilitate the apparatus to receive a service associated with the provisioning data;
- and
- a communication interface operatively coupled to the near field communication transceiver and configured to transmit, over a network, a request for the service to a service provider indicated in the provisioning data, and to receive service application installation data configured to enable the apparatus to receive the service, wherein the network is designed to facilitate communication between the apparatus and the service provider with the apparatus and the service provider disposed at more than 2 inches from each other.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, from another device via a near field communication (NFC) link, provisioning data configured to facilitate the computing device to receive a service associated with the provisioning data, the other device disposed at about less than 2 inches from the computing device during said receiving;
- requesting, by the computing device via a network, the service from a service provider indicated in the received provisioning data, the service provider disposed at more than 2 inches from the computing device;
- receiving, by the computing device via the network, service application installation data associated with the service in response to said requesting;
- and
- installing, on the computing device, the received service application data to enable the computing device to receive the service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.