Advanced routing mechanisms for secure elements

An apparatus for near-field communications (NFC), comprising:

• means for receiving, by an NFC controller, a request message corresponding to a poll command from an NFC reader prior to receiving a current message;
• means for receiving, by the NFC controller, a last response message from one of a plurality of secure elements;
• means for saving, by the NFC controller, an identification of the one of the plurality of secure elements that sent the last response message;
• means for receiving, by the NFC controller, a current message from the NFC reader;
• means for determining that the current message does not include an identification of a secure element;
• means for identifying, by the NFC controller, a secure element corresponding to the last response message sent to the NFC reader based at least on a table of known technology-based routing entries indicating at least one technology type;
• and
• means for sending, by the NFC controller, the current message to the identified secure element that originated the last response message sent to the NFC reader.

An apparatus for near-field communications (NFC), comprising:

• a NFC controller configured to:
• receive a request message corresponding to a poll command from an NFC reader prior to receiving a current message;
• receive a last response message from one of a plurality of secure elements;
• save an identification of the one of the plurality of secure elements that sent the last response message;
• receive the current message from the NFC reader;
• determine that the current message does not include an identification of a secure element;
• identify a secure element corresponding to the last response message sent to the NFC reader based at least on a table of known technology-based routing entries indicating at least one technology type;
• and
• send the current message to the identified secure element that originated the last response message sent to the NFC reader.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable code for near-field communications (NFC), comprising:

• code for receiving a request message corresponding to a poll command from an NFC reader prior to
• receiving a current message;
• code for receiving a last response message from one of a plurality of secure elements;
• code for
• saving an identification of the one of the plurality of secure elements that sent the last response message;
• code for receiving the current message from the NFC reader;
• code for determining that the current message does not include an identification of a secure element;
• code for identifying a secure element corresponding to the last response message sent to the NFC reader based at least on a table of known technology-based routing entries indicating at least one technology type;
• and
• code for sending the current message to the identified secure element that originated the last response message sent to the NFC reader.