RFID/NFC functionality for portable electronic devices

• US 10,387,870 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2016
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Smart Cellco, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Smart Cellco, Inc.
• Inventors: Spencer, II, Carroll Alexis
• Primary Examiner(s): Savusdiphol, Paultep
• Application Number:
  US15/369,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20170083901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 988 Days
• Field of Search: 235380, 235487, 235492
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2218/10 by analysing the shape of a waveform, e.g. extracting parameters relating to peaks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/321 using wearable devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/322 Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/327 Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3821 Electronic credentials
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/384 using social networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/386 using messaging services or messaging apps using mobile network messaging services for payment, e.g. SMS G06Q20/3255
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0267 Wireless devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/34 Betting or bookmaking, e.g. Internet betting
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/15 Biometric patterns based on physiological signals, e.g. heartbeat, blood flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/18 Eye characteristics, e.g. of the iris
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/0886 the card reader being portable for interacting with a POS or ECR in realizing a payment transaction
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 : Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 : including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 : Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 : Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/33 : using wearable devices, e.g. using a smartwatch or smart-glasses
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/43 : using shared identity modules, e.g. SIM sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 : Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 : using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 : Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/20 : Information technology specific aspects, e.g. CAD, simulation, modelling, system security

Abstract

A handheld and/or optical and/or audio device for electronic and/or wireless transactions providing dedicated communication and dedicated function activatable components to extend or expand the operation of the device to permit the user to perform additional actions and/or transactions facilitated by the RFID/NFC-operability. Methods of using the device for conducting business or social transactions are also included.

Claims

1. A system for conducting transactions and/or actions via an electronic wireless device comprising:

an electronic wireless device including a dedicated communication component, a display component, and an optical system;

an application server and a transaction server operable to connect to the electronic wireless device over a network;

a trigger and/or a tag on a good, a product, an object, media, and/or a service offering;

wherein the display component includes a virtual display, an optical display, an electronic display, and/or a projection system;

wherein the dedicated communication component and/or the optical system is operable to read the trigger and/or the tag on the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering;

wherein upon the dedicated communication component and/or the optical system reading the trigger and/or the tag on the good, the product, the object, the media and/or the service offering, the dedicated communication component communicates with the application server over the network to obtain information regarding the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, and the display component is operable to display the information regarding the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering; and

wherein upon the dedicated communication component and/or the optical system reading the trigger and/or the tag on the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, the dedicated communication component is operable to communicate with the transaction server and/or the application server over the network to perform a transaction and/or an action related to the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging a security and data linking the security to a token.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic wireless device further includes locators, and wherein upon reading the trigger and/or the tag on the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, the electronic wireless device identifies a location of the electronic wireless device via the locators and communicates the location of the electronic wireless device to a third party device without requiring additional user action, and wherein the device is not in communication with the trigger and/or tag when the electronic wireless device identifies the location of the electronic wireless device and communicates the location of the electronic wireless device to a third party device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein upon reading the trigger and/or the tag on the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, the dedicated communication component provides authorization for attendance and/or presence within a predetermined proximity.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the transaction and/or the action is a social interaction and relates to a social media provider.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging the token or a virtual currency.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes a purchase of the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, wherein upon the purchase of the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, a promotion offset is activated in a gaming account, the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering is linked to the gaming account and/or the account, and/or access is provided to a pre-launch of a game or other products, other goods, other media, other services, and/or other objects.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes linking to a movie, a radio station, and/or music.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the display component and/or the optical system is further operable to display advertisements for other goods, other products, other media, other objects, and/or other service offerings upon the dedicated communication component and/or the optical system reading the trigger and/or the tag on the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering, the system further comprising a social media filter operable to filter the advertisements for the other goods, the other products, the other media, the other objects, and/or the other service offerings, wherein the dedicated communication component and/or the optical system is operable to communicate advertising-based feedback based on the advertisements for the other goods, the other products, the other media, the other objects, and/or the other service offerings to a database on a remote server computer and/or to a cloud based ASP service, wherein the advertising-based feedback includes real time demographic data and/or tracking, wherein the advertising-based feedback is created via optical tracking and/or eye tracking.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the optical system is operable for interactive response via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communications (NFC), Zigbee, Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV), currencies, virtual currencies, objects, tokens, triggers, tags, codes, audio, visual based recognition, gesture based recognition and/or navigation, 2d bar codes, 3d bar codes, 4d bar codes, wherein 4d bar codes are an amalgamation of various identifiers together, locations, advertisements, marketing variations, merchandising recognition to include through various product and/or service capabilities, wherein the service capabilities include creating dynamic gameplay and/or offers, coupons and/or loyalty/discount offers and/or information barcodes and/or other interactive elements;

and/or

wherein interactivity of the optical system provides for gaming, wagering, payment, and/or social interaction; and

/or

wherein the optical system is further operable for recognizing a virtual overlay, and wherein visual elements of the optical system are connected by wireless means, recognition, touch based transfer, matching of virtual symbols, the tags, or objects to conduct various transactions and/or actions via the transaction server and/or the application server including business transactions and/or actions, advertising, videoconferencing, visual identification, audio and/or waveform identification and/or game play and/or use without requiring additional user action, wherein the various transactions and/or actions result in a purchase, location identification, directions, game play, social interactions, communications, personal communications, entertainment, and/or virtualized payment; and

/or

wherein the optical system is further operable to provide advertising based-feedback to a database via real time demographic tracking, optical tracking, and/or eye tracking; and

/or

wherein the optical system is further operable to provide retinal activation, monitoring and/or control of the electronic wireless device, speech authentication, verbal input and/or output, direction, audio and/or visual interaction, audio and/or visual tags and/or triggers including thought based tags and/or triggers, tags and/or triggers based on thought control, and/or tags and/or triggers based on biofeedback; and

/or

wherein the electronic wireless device is operable to stand alone or to access the cloud for additional on demand computing resources and downlink of information related to any location, business, service, gaming, and/or education component, data linking and/or input and/or output function or capability, and/or is operable for communication via the dedicated communication component with the triggers and/or the tags through a variety of electronic and/or detection means including RFID, NFC, a transceiver, infrared (IR), RF, laser, barcode, visual detection, optical detection, audio and/or visual and/or voice and/or motion and/or object recognition, a signature, a waveform, a cue, a pattern recognition, Zigbee, advertising recognition, motion activation, motion detection, and/or electronic detection; and

/or

wherein the service offering is linked to a gaming account and wherein the transaction and/or the action provides access to a pre-launch of a game; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action occurs in reaction to or activates a movie ticket and/or media which opens a connection for account creation, data linking, and/or linking to an account or multiple accounts; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action is deployed through social media interaction or an audio command or audio signal and/or is activated by the optical and/or audio and/or NFC tagging; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action also provides for an immediate ability to upsell, data linking, information access, providing access to privileges, and/or pre-launches of games associated with a movie, radio, the media, and/or music.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes data linking an emulated currency, a virtual currency, and/or tokens to another emulated currency, another virtual currency, other tokens, virtual services, virtual purchases, virtual goods, points, coupons, prizes, securities, securities related instruments, a debit transaction, a credit transaction, currency exchanges, a security checkpoint, an authorization, and/or a security checkpoint authorization.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the electronic wireless device is further operable to perform a transaction for the good, the product, the object, the media, and/or the service offering with emulated currency, virtual currency, and/or tokens, wherein the emulated currency, the virtual currency, and/or the tokens are data linked to another emulated currency, another virtual currency, and/or other tokens.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes a location identification of the electronic wireless device.

13. A system for conducting transactions and/or actions via an electronic wireless device comprising:

an electronic wireless device including a dedicated communication component;

a transaction server and/or an application server, wherein the electronic wireless device is operable to connect to the transaction server and/or the application server over a network, wherein the dedicated communication component is operable to communicate with the transaction server and/or the application server to perform a transaction and/or an action;

wherein the electronic wireless device is operable to stand alone or to access the cloud for on demand computing resources and uplinking and/or downlinking information related to a transaction or an action;

wherein the transaction and/or action includes exchanging a security, an emulated currency, a virtual currency, a first virtual currency data linked to a second virtual currency, a first emulated currency data linked to a second emulated currency, a virtual currency data linked to a token, a token data linked to a virtual currency, an emulated currency data linked to a virtual currency, and/or an emulated currency data linked to a token with or without requiring user interaction.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising an optical system

wherein the optical system and/or the dedicated communication component is operable for interactive response via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communications (NFC), Zigbee, Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV), currencies, virtual currencies, objects, tokens, triggers, tags, codes, audio, visual based recognition, gesture based recognition and/or navigation, 2d bar codes, 3d bar codes, 4d bar codes, wherein 4d bar codes are an amalgamation of various identifiers together, locations, advertisements, marketing variations, merchandising recognition to include through various product and/or service capabilities, wherein the service capabilities include creating dynamic gameplay and/or offers, coupons and/or loyalty/discount offers and/or information barcodes and/or other interactive elements;

wherein interactivity of the optical system provides for gaming, wagering, payment, and/or social interaction;

wherein the optical system is further operable for recognizing a virtual overlay, and wherein visual elements of the optical system are connected by wireless means, recognition, touch based transfer, matching of virtual symbols, the tags, or objects to conduct various transactions and/or actions via the transaction server and/or the application server including business transactions and/or actions, advertising, videoconferencing, visual identification, audio and/or waveform identification and/or game play and/or use without requiring additional user action, wherein the various transactions result in a purchase, location identification, directions, game play, social interactions, communications, personal communications, entertainment, virtual currency payments, virtual token payments, and/or virtualized payments;

wherein the optical system is further operable to provide advertising based-feedback to a database via real time demographic tracking, optical tracking, and/or eye tracking;

wherein the optical system is further operable to provide retinal activation, monitoring and/or control of the electronic wireless device, speech authentication, verbal input and/or output, direction, audio and/or visual interaction, audio and/or visual tags and/or triggers including thought based tags and/or triggers, tags and/or triggers based on thought control, and/or tags and/or triggers based on biofeedback;

wherein the electronic wireless device is operable to stand alone or to access the cloud for additional on demand computing resources and downlink of information related to any location, business, service, gaming, transaction, and/or education component, data linking and/or input and/or output function or capability, and/or is operable for communication via the dedicated communication component with the triggers and/or the tags through a variety of electronic and/or detection means including RFID, NFC, a transceiver, infrared (IR), RF, laser, barcode, visual detection, optical detection, audio and/or visual and/or voice and/or motion and/or object recognition, a signature, a waveform, a cue, a pattern recognition, Zigbee, advertising recognition, motion activation, motion detection, and/or electronic detection; and

/or

wherein the service offering is linked to a gaming account and wherein the transaction and/or the action provides access to a pre-launch of a game; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action occurs in reaction to or activates a movie ticket and/or media which opens a connection for account creation, data linking, and/or linking to an account or multiple accounts; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action is deployed through social media interaction or an audio command or audio signal and/or is activated by the optical and/or audio and/or NFC tagging; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action also provides for an immediate ability to upsell, data linking, information access, providing access to privileges, and/or pre-launches of games associated with a movie, radio, the media, and/or music; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action is related to a good, a product, an object, a media, and/or a service offering.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the transaction and/or action further includes performing an action with a virtual currency that is data linked to another virtual currency.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes a location identification of the electronic wireless device.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging the security, wherein the security is data linked to a token.

18. The system of claim 13, in the transaction and/or the action includes data linking the virtual currency to another virtual currency.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the electronic wireless device is operable to access the cloud for a virtualized stock market related transaction including buying or selling securities and/or securities related instruments and/or a virtualized exchange of virtual currency, wherein the virtualized stock market related transaction and/or the virtualized exchange of virtual currency includes one or more tokens.

20. A system for conducting transactions and/or actions via an electronic wireless device comprising:

an electronic wireless device including a dedicated communication component, a functional component, and a display component;

a transaction server and/or an application server operable to connect to the electronic wireless device over a network, wherein the dedicated communication component is operable to communicate with the transaction server and/or the application server to perform a transaction and/or an action, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging a security and/or a virtual currency;

wherein the transaction and/or the action includes data linking the security and/or the virtual currency to a token;

wherein the display component includes a virtual display, an electronic display, and/or a projection system.

21. The system of claim 20,

wherein the optical system is operable for interactive response via Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Near Field Communications (NFC), Zigbee, Europay MasterCard Visa (EMV), currencies, virtual currencies, objects, tokens, triggers, tags, codes, audio, visual based recognition, gesture based recognition and/or navigation, 2d bar codes, 3d bar codes, 4d bar codes, wherein 4d bar codes are an amalgamation of various identifiers together, locations, advertisements, marketing variations, merchandising recognition to include through various product and/or service capabilities, wherein the service capabilities include creating dynamic gameplay and/or offers, coupons and/or loyalty/discount offers and/or information barcodes and/or other interactive elements;

wherein interactivity of the optical system provides for payment, gaming, wagering, payment, and/or social interaction;

wherein the optical system is further operable for recognizing a virtual overlay, and wherein visual elements of the optical system are connected by wireless means, recognition, touch based transfer, matching of virtual symbols, the tags, or objects to conduct various transactions and/or actions via the transaction server and/or the application server including business transactions and/or actions, advertising, videoconferencing, visual identification, audio and/or waveform identification and/or game play and/or use without requiring additional user action, wherein the various transactions result in a purchase, location identification, directions, game play, social interactions, communications, personal communications, entertainment, and/or virtualized payment;

wherein the optical system is further operable to provide advertising based-feedback to a database via real time demographic tracking, optical tracking, and/or eye tracking;

wherein the optical system is further operable to provide retinal activation, monitoring and/or control of the electronic wireless device, speech authentication, verbal input and/or output, direction, audio and/or visual interaction, audio and/or visual tags and/or triggers including thought based tags and/or triggers, tags and/or triggers based on thought control, and/or tags and/or triggers based on biofeedback;

wherein the electronic wireless device is operable to stand alone or to access the cloud for additional on demand computing resources and downlink of information related to any location, business, service, gaming, transaction, and/or education component, data linking and/or input and/or output function or capability, and/or is operable for communication via the dedicated communication component with the triggers and/or the tags through a variety of electronic and/or detection means including RFID, NFC, a transceiver, infrared (IR), RF, laser, barcode, visual detection, optical detection, audio and/or visual and/or voice and/or motion and/or object recognition, a signature, a waveform, a cue, a pattern recognition, Zigbee, advertising recognition, motion activation, motion detection, and/or electronic detection; and

/or

wherein the service offering is linked to a gaming account and wherein the transaction and/or the action provides access to a pre-launch of a game; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action occurs in reaction to or activates a movie ticket and/or media which opens a connection for account creation, data linking, and/or linking to an account or multiple accounts; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action is deployed through social media interaction or an audio command or audio signal and/or is activated by the optical and/or audio and/or NFC tagging; and

/or

wherein the transaction and/or the action also provides for an immediate ability to upsell, data linking, information access, providing access to privileges, and/or pre-launches of games associated with a movie, radio, the media, and/or music; and

wherein the transaction includes data linking an emulated currency and/or a virtual currency and tokens, gaming, gambling, lottery, purchases, virtual services, virtual purchases, virtual goods, virtual NFC and/or EMV capabilities, points, rebates, coupons, prizes, debit transactions, credit transactions, currency exchanges, redemption, stored value system(s), location based transaction systems, an identification capability, an authorization capability, a security checkpoint authorization, subsidization, and/or subsidization linked to payment and/or a prepaid account.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging the security, wherein the security is data linked to the token.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging the security and data linking the security to the token.

24. The system of claim 20, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes exchanging the virtual currency and data linking the virtual currency to the token.

25. The system of claim 20, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes a location identification of the electronic wireless device.

26. The system of claim 20, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes a stock market related transaction including buying and/or selling a good, a product, the virtual currency, and/or the security, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes data linking the good, the product, the virtual currency, the security, and/or an exchange to one or more tokens, and/or wherein the transaction and/or the action includes an education component.

27. The system of claim 20, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes a stock market related transaction including buying and/or selling a good, a product, the virtual currency, and/or the security, wherein the transaction and/or the action includes data linking the good, the product, the virtual currency, the security, and/or an exchange to one or more tokens, and/or wherein the transaction and/or the action includes an education component, wherein the transaction and/or the action is performed via one or more electronic communications devices and/or electronic mobile communications devices with or without additional user action.