US 9,544,020 B2Granted

NFC negotiated pairing

AssigneesVerizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Cellco Partnership

InventorsJyothi Keshavdas, Lalit R. Kotecha

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Abstract

A mobile device includes a transceiver for performing wireless communication, a microprocessor for operating said mobile device, a near field communications (NFC) system for performing wireless communication independent of the transceiver and at a lower amount of power than said transceiver, a contactless front end included in the NFC system for receiving or transmitting signals with an NFC capable device, and a pairing system implemented in the microprocessor for pairing one NFC capable device with another NFC capable device. The pairing system configures the mobile device to receive a tag or a device driver from one of the NFC capable devices that are to be paired with each other; and transfers the tag or a device driver obtained from the tag to the other of the NFC capable devices in order to enable interoperation between the two NFC capable devices.

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Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising:

a transceiver for performing mobile wireless communication;
a microprocessor for operating said mobile device;
a near field communications (NFC) system for performing wireless communication independent of the transceiver and at a lower amount of power than the mobile wireless communication via said transceiver;
a contactless front end included in said near field communications system for receiving or transmitting signals with an NFC capable device;
a pairing system implemented by said microprocessor for pairing said NFC capable device with another device, wherein said pairing system configures the mobile device to:
transmit, outside the mobile device, a tag corresponding to a device driver;
receive interoperation data from one of said NFC capable device or said another device, wherein said interoperation data is associated with the device driver and the tag corresponding to the device driver for one of said NFC capable device or said another device, and further wherein the device driver corresponding to the tag is received from outside the mobile device;
and
transfer said interoperation data, including the device driver corresponding to the tag, to the other one of said another device or said NFC capable device after the device driver is identified as corresponding to the tag, in order to enable interoperation between said NFC capable device and said another device,
wherein at least one of the receiving the interoperation data and the transferring of the interoperation data is via an NFC communication using the NFC system.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform functions, comprising functions to:

transmit, outside a mobile device, a tag corresponding to a device driver;
receive interoperation data from one of an NFC capable device or another device, wherein said interoperation data is associated with the device driver and the tag corresponding to the device driver for one of said NFC capable device or said another device, and further wherein the device driver corresponding to the tag is received from outside the mobile device;
and
transfer said interoperation data, including the device driver corresponding to the tag, to the other one of said another device or said NFC capable device after the device driver is identified as corresponding to the tag, in order to enable interoperation between said NFC capable device and said another device,
wherein at least one of the receiving the interoperation data and the transferring of the interoperation data is via an NFC communication using an NFC system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.