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US 8,577,410 B2Granted
Radio communication device comprising a UHF tag reader
AssigneeInside Secure
InventorsBruno Charrat, Nicolas Cordier
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Abstract
A device includes a radio transceiver equipped with a UHF antenna, a clock generator associated with the radio transceiver, a processor configured to periodically connect to the radiotelephony network by way of the radio transceiver, and a UHF tag reader configured to conduct a transaction with a UHF tag only outside periods of connection of the processor to the radiotelephony network. The device is particularly directed for use in mobile telephones.
Claims15
A device comprising:
- a radio transceiver equipped with a UHF antenna;
- a clock generator associated with the radio transceiver;
- a processor configured to regularly alternate radio connection periods, wherein the processor connects to a radiotelephony network (BST) by way of the radio transceiver, with radio idle periods, wherein the radio transceiver is not being used by the processor to connect to the radiotelephony network;
- and
- a UHF tag reader,
- wherein the UHF tag reader is configured to conduct a transaction with a UHF tag (TG) only during a radio idle period.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.