316 results about "Near field communication technology" patented technology

Mobile payments and processing data related to electronic transactions. A near field communication connection is established between a mobile communication device of a consumer that serves as a mobile wallet and an electronic payment device of a merchant. Authorization data is shared between the mobile communication device and the electronic payment device without providing electronic payment instrument (e.g. credit card) data to the merchant. Authorization data is transmitted from the mobile communication device to a cloud computer or resource that serves as a cloud wallet and hosts respective data of respective electronic payment instruments of respective consumers, and from the electronic payment device a payment processor computer. The payment processor computer presents the authorization data to the cloud wallet, and in response, the cloud wallet transmits the credit card data to the payment processor computer, which processes the transaction.

In a portable electronic device (100) having a plurality of near field communication applications stored within a plurality of execution environments, an application discovery manager (311) is configured to automatically select and launch one or more of the near field communication applications. A near field communication circuit (300) receives a near field communication request from an external near field communication device (700). The application discovery manager (311) identifies a near field communication technology, a protocol, and an application identifier and then references a registry table (313) to determine identification parameters corresponding with the identified information. The application discovery manager (311) then selects a near field communication application and launches it. The application discovery manager (311) further configures a routing switch (316) to direct data between the near field communication circuit controller (301) and the appropriate execution environment.

A mobile device may use near field communication (NFC) technology to configuration a generic pool of wearable, wireless sensors that may occupy different physical locations on an end user s body. The wearable sensors have an embedded NFC tag in them such, that a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, with an NFC capability may be used to configure sensors in the field so that it recognizes which sensor is connected to which body part. Such a system may be used for example to monitor and report on the user's daily physical activity patterns or be used for video gaming applications where the user's physical movements are detected and utilized to control the game.

In a portable electronic device (100) having a plurality of near field communication applications stored within a plurality of execution environments, an application discovery manager (311) is configured to automatically select and launch one or more of the near field communication applications. A near field communication circuit (300) receives a near field communication request from an external near field communication device (700). The application discovery manager (311) identifies a near field communication technology, a protocol, and an application identifier and then references a registry table (313) to determine identification parameters corresponding with the identified information. The application discovery manager (311) then selects a near field communication application and launches it. The application discovery manager (311) further configures a routing switch (316) to direct data between the near field communication circuit controller (301) and the appropriate execution environment.

A parking lot management system comprising a computer host, a handheld device, an entrance sensor, an entrance camera, an entrance stop, an exit sensor, an exit camera, and an exit stop is disclosed. The handheld device interactively transmits data with the entrance sensor and the exit sensor by near-field communication techniques. Each of the entrance camera and the exit camera takes a photo and acquires a license plate number of a vehicle and communicates this information with the computer host. After the computer host confirms and verifies some specific data, the computer host sends instructions to the entrance stop or the exit stop for allowing the vehicle to either enter or exit a parking lot. When exiting the parking lot, the parking fee is paid by the electronic wallet of the handheld device.

A parameter of a mobile telephone operation, such as type of ringtone and / or ringtone volume, is changed upon determination that the mobile telephone is within an enclosed container or environment such as a briefcase, a purse, a pocket, or the like. Near field communication technology is utilized to detect proximity of the telephone within the enclosure. The parameter of the mobile telephone also may be changed upon determination that the telephone is in a noisy environment such as crowded room or stadium.

Provided is a portable device using a common antenna for both near field communication and wireless charging. The portable device includes: a common antenna part transmitting and receiving near field communication and wireless charging signals; an NFC signal judgment module connected to the common antenna part and sensing a signal applied from the common antenna part or a Tx signal generated from an NFC performing part to thereby judge whether or not the signal applied from the common antenna part or the Tx signal is the near field communication signal; an NFC performing part connected to the NFC signal judgment module and performing near field communication according to a control signal transferred from the NFC signal judgment module; and a battery part connected to the NFC signal judgment module and being wirelessly charged according to the control signal transferred from the NFC signal judgment module.

A near field communication (NFC) device is utilized in a mobile communications device to facilitate sensing the presence of and connecting to a wireless local area network (WLAN). A user can position the mobile communications device in close proximity to a designated location of a WLAN establishment at which an NFC device is situated. Near field communication is then detected and WLAN data can then be communicated by near field communication to the NFC reader in the mobile communications device. The NFC reader is coupled to a controller of the mobile communications device to input data received by the NFC device to the controller for processing. The data are utilized to facilitate connection to the WLAN.

The present invention discloses a mobile terminal capable of supporting near field communication, which comprises an NFC device, a logic switch, a determination module, a receiving module, an output module and more than two SIM cards, wherein the NFC device is respectively connected with the more than two SIM cards through the logic switch; the determination module is used for determining to satisfy communication needs when the more than two SIM cards are communicated with the NFC device; the SIM cards which satisfy the communication needs are one time , and the logic switch is controlled to communicate the SIM cards which satisfy the communication needs to the NFC device; the SIM cards which satisfy the communication needs are more than two times, SIM card information satisfying the communication needs are output by the output module, and the receiving module is used for receiving the SIM card which is selected to be communicated by a user to control the logic switch to communicate the selected SIM card to the NFC device. At the same time, the present invention discloses a near field communication method based on the mobile terminal. The technical scheme of the present invention is simple, and the realizing cost is low.

The invention discloses an audio output method of a Bluetooth earphone, and the Bluetooth earphone. The Bluetooth earphone comprises a master earphone and a slave earphone, the method comprises the following steps: receiving audio signals of a sound source and separating the audio signals into a first sound channel audio signal and a second sound channel audio signal by the master earphone; sending the second sound channel audio signal to the slave earphone by using the near field communication technology to output audio; and controlling the first sound channel audio signal to cache a certain frame number according to a pre-obtained cache frame number and outputting the audio, wherein the pre-obtained cache frame number is obtained according to the time of sending the second sound channel audio signal to the slave earphone. The technical effect that the left and right Bluetooth earphones synchronously output the audio is realized, and the user experience is improved.

The invention relates to near field communication technologies, and provides a near field communication authentication method based on U / SIM card authentication response and time-limited feedback so as to solve the problem that the security of near field communication in the prior art can not be guaranteed. According to the method, authentication parameters used for near field transactions are independently set and issued to a mobile terminal by a server of a system, and a mobile terminal APP calls networked U / SIM card authentication and then sends the authentication result to the server after calculation for pre-storing the authentication result. In each time of near field transaction, the server selects random codes from the pre-stored data freely, issues the selected random codes to the mobile terminal and compares an authentication response fed back by the mobile terminal with an authentication response, pre-stored in the terminal, in a database so that the legality of the transactions can be guaranteed. The invention further provides a set of guarantee procedures so as to prevent mobile phone viruses or remote attacks from a hacker and guarantee the security of the authentication response, and namely, a payment terminal can pass authentication only after carrying out feedback within the time limited by the system and making the correct authentication response. The method is suitable for the near field transactions.

A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include an attachment with a near field communication antenna, a secure element, a plug capable of connecting the attachment to an audio jack on a mobile device. Further, a system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include receiving a payment initiation instruction from a customer, using a near field communication antenna, sending payment information to a point of sale device, using one or more computer processors, encoding data related to the payment as audio data, and transmitting the data related to the payment through an audio jack.

Disclosed are a near field communication terminal, system and method. The near field communication terminal comprises a secure element (SE), configured to store identification information of the near field communication (NFC) terminal; an NFC module, configured to communicate with a card reader about the identification information over an NFC channel; and a bluetooth module, configured to communicate with the card reader about the identification information over a bluetooth channel. The present invention expands the transmission distance of the NFC terminal, thereby improving the user experience.

The invention provides an on-site payment transaction mode of the mobile Internet, which belongs to the technical fields of software, mobile communication, Internet, 3G, mobile Internet, intelligent mobile phones and bar code scanning. The technical problem to be solved by the invention is that: a near-field communication technology is adopted for the present point of sale (POS) machine payment and the mobile payment of banks, however, the near-field payment technical standards are unified so far; a POS terminal is expensive, is hard to popularize, and causes many troubles for the payment promotion and brings difficulties to user payment, so that the POS terminal is not beneficial to commodity transaction. The invention aims to realize the free payment by using the mobile Internet technology, the software technology, the mobile communication technology and the like rather than the near-field communication technology and the POS machine. The key point of the technical scheme provided by the invention is that: all the transactional functions, such as merchant number identification, user identity information identification, man-machine interaction, safe communication, transaction status display, transaction process control and the like are realized mainly through using the mobile Internet technology, the software technology, a terminal technology, an encrypted communication technology, a cloud technology, a security technology and the like.

The invention discloses a shared bike electronic lock system and an unlocking method thereof. The electronic lock system comprises an electronic lock module, a mobile phone supporting near-field communication and an authentication server. The electronic lock module is an electronic lock supporting the near-field communication and the mobile communication modes and having a cipher algorithm. The mobile phone supporting the near-field communication is a smart phone with the near-field communication technology. The authentication server comprises a cipher algorithm analysis system and a vehicle identification code database. According to the invention, by use of the near-field communication technology, encrypted message interaction between the electronic lock and the authentication server is improved; user experience is improved; and information safety is ensured.

A system for the audio lead through of a visually impaired user of a self-service terminal employs near field communication techniques to transfer connection data required for the establishment of a Bluetooth connection between the self-service terminal and a remote audio output device. Once a Bluetooth connection is established audio files containing instructions on how to execute a transaction on the self-service terminal are transferred from the self-service terminal to the audio output device such that the user can hear audio files when played.

The invention discloses a file transfer method and a file transfer system between mobile terminals. A first mobile terminal receives an operational order of a user, selects a file which needs sending and generates a corresponding request interlinkage, then the first mobile terminal is connected with a server, sends the request interlinkage to the server, and then uploads the file which needs sending to the server. A second mobile terminal is connected with the server according to the request interlinkage sent by the first mobile terminal and downloads the file uploaded by the first mobile terminal correspondingly; transfer of the request interlinkage is rapidly finished by means of near field communication technology, and manual establishing of wireless connection is not needed; the file is uploaded to the server through a wireless network and transferred through the server, the user does not need to wait for the file transfer to be finished within a certain range in a file transfer process, and short-distance transfer is converted into long-distance transfer, freedom in the file transfer process is greatly increased, and the user is benefited.

The invention relates to a near field communication card activation method and device. The invention relates to the near field communication technology, and solves the problems of low efficiency and poor user experience in the simulation card switching management process. The method comprises the following steps: determining a near field communication (NFC) card associated with a preset position change rule in response to the detection that the change of the geographic position conforms to the preset position change rule, and activating the NFC card; wherein the preset position change rule isused for representing entering of a preset geographical range and / or leaving of the preset geographical range. The technical scheme provided by the invention is suitable for terminal equipment information management, and automatic selection and activation of the NFC card are realized.

The invention provides a brand new control method of a remote control toy, which aims at solving the shortcomings that the equipment is complicated, the cost is high, the remote control interestingness is poor, the existing remote control toy is not intelligentized and can only be operated by a simple person, etc. The method for solving the problems, disclosed by the invention, comprises the following steps: mounting a near field communication technology module on the remote control toy, then mounting an operation client on control equipment, using a near field wireless communication module of the control equipment through the client to communicate with the remote control toy and transmit a control command, and further controlling the remote control toy.

Systems, methods and devices which utilize near field communication-style technologies in conjunction with one or more of personal devices and communication networks in order to provide for improved customer interactions with a service establishment are provided. In one embodiment an application is configured to provide for various functionality upon the triggering of a near-field communication stimulus. For example, upon scanning a near field device, an application may launch that provides a user with pre-determined information. Such information may include information regarding the nearest locations of a service establishment and approximate wait times for transactions at the listed locations. In another embodiment, the pre-determined information may include information regarding promotions available to a customer such as special offers, coupons, advertisements, and the like.

The invention discloses a mobile network quantum key distribution system based on near field communication and a distribution method thereof. The inspection of the distribution environment of near field communication key can be realized and the user validity of mobile equipment can be verified by a striking distance constraint module, a user authentication module, a key distribution module, a mobile terminal key storage module, a key synchronous module, a quantum encryption file transmission module, a mobile terminal key storage, a key pool, a near field communication device and a fingerprint module which are connected. The server end is realized to be synchronous with the key at a gateway terminal, the secrete storage of the quantum key of the mobile network as well as the encryption communication of the mobile equipment and the server terminal are realized by distributing the quantum key of the mobile network based on a near field communication protocol. The mobile network quantum key distribution system has the features of high portability and light application of the mobile equipment.

The invention provides a data exchange method based on a near field communication technology, comprising the steps of: obtaining a preset data exchange manner; determining corresponding working modes by a first terminal and a second terminal according to the preset data exchange mode; and exchanging data between the first terminal and the second terminal according to the working modes. Meanwhile, the invention also provides a mobile terminal for realizing the data exchange based on the near field communication technology. According to the method provided in the invention, the problems that the mutual data transmission between the mobile terminals is in need of complex operation steps and longer time for information transmission and is low in efficiency are solved.

The invention discloses a swiping-card payment system and a method. The method includes the steps of separating a swiping-card operation of a user card from a confirmation operation of the user card, enabling the confirmation operation to establish near field communication connection between a payment terminal and a mobile terminal of a user through utilization of the near-field communication technology, transferring an object of a confirmation action from the payment terminal to the mobile terminal of the user, and enabling the user to input password information on the safer condition. Consequently, the safety of the password of the user card is guaranteed. The swiping-card payment system and the method are suitable for the field of application of swiping-card payment of various bank cards on point-of-sale (POS) machines and deposit and withdraw money services of various bank cards on automatic teller machines (ATM).

The invention relates to a near field communication module, a system and a method thereof. The near field communication method comprises the following step that: both sides of a communication terminal take sound as an information carrier to establish near field communication connection in a preset near field scope, and then carry out data exchanges through a sound channel or a near field radio communication channel. The near field communication system comprises a master device and a slave device which are connected through a wireless mode. The master device and the slave device both comprise the near field communication module. The near field communication system also comprises a background which is connected with the master device through a wired mode or the wireless mode. The near field communication module comprises a control unit, a sound communication sending unit and a sound communication receiving unit, wherein the sound communication sending unit and the sound communication receiving unit are connected with the control unit respectively. By using the near field communication module, the system and the method provided in the invention, under the condition that the current intelligent terminal is not changed, the intelligent terminal possesses a near field communication function and application and dissemination of the near field communication are promoted.