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US 8,474,718 B2Granted
Method for provisioning an apparatus connected contactless to a mobile device
AssigneeTyfone, Inc.
InventorsSiva G. Narendra, Prabhakar Tadepalli, Thomas N. Spitzer
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Abstract
An electronic transaction card communicates with an add-on slot of an intelligent electronic device. The add-on slot may be a memory card slot. The intelligent electronic device may be a mobile phone or other device with or without network connectivity. The electronic transaction card may have magnetic field producing circuitry compatible with magnetic card readers, smartcard circuitry, other point-of-sale interfaces, or any combination thereof.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile device, a communication over a network;
- and
- programming an apparatus with smartcard circuitry over a contactless interface in response to the communication.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a mobile phone, a communication over a network;
- and
- in response to the communication, programming an apparatus over a contactless interface to perform transactions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.