METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AND PROVIDING INDICATIONS OF COMMUNICATION EVENTS

• US 20090075592A1
• Filed: 12/16/2005
• Published: 03/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Sevanto, Jarkko, Nystrom, Sebastian, Pesonen, Lauri, Saarisalo, Mikko
• Application Number:
  US12/097,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20090075592A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0719 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for application selection, e.g. an acceleration sensor or a set of radio buttons application selection on smart cards using pure software control, see G07F7/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3226 Use of secure elements separate from 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: G07F 19/208 Use of an ATM as a switch or hub
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• 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

Abstract

The present invention relates to the field of contact-less transactions, in particular to the field of near field communication and more particularly to smart card transactions over radio frequency identification interface. The present invention relates also to a method and system for providing a user of a mobile terminal with additional information and control over various transaction processes and at the same time additional visibility to various transaction service providers by providing indications of near field communication events on a near field communication device, with the steps of detecting a near field communication event, obtaining at least one indication of near field communication events in accordance with said detected near field communication event, and providing said at least one obtained indication.

Claims

1. Method comprising:

detecting a near field communication event,

obtaining at least one indication of near field communication events in accordance with said detected near field communication event, and

providing said at least one obtained indication.

3. Method according to claim 1 further comprising:

identifying the near field communication entity causing said near field communication event,

determining a group of applications on said near field communication device allocated to said identified near field communication entity, and

granting said entity causing said near field communication event access to said allocated applications.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein near field communication event is selected from the group consisting of transaction requests, transactions, data transfer requests, data transfers.

5. Method according to claim 1, further comprising:

registering detected near field communication events in a registry of detected near field communication events.

6. Method according to claim 3, further comprising:

grouping said applications of the near field communication device according to a received user input.

7. Method according to claim 1, further comprising:

grouping said communication events.

8. Method according to claim 7, wherein said grouping is performed according to requests from identified and unknown requesting instances.

9. Method according to claim 7, further comprising

determining the position of the near field communication device, wherein said grouping is performed according to location information.

10. Method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user input for providing said obtained at least one indication.

11. Method according to claim 1, wherein said step of obtaining said indications in accordance with said detected near field communication event further comprises obtaining indications selected from the group consisting of playable sound files, video clips, vibration signalization files, splash screens, or images.

12. Method according to claim 10, further comprising

downloading said indications, and

linking said indications with said near field communication events.

13. Method according to claim 12, wherein said linking is performed by defining trigger conditions for providing said downloaded indications.

14. Method according to claim 13, further comprising:

checking if said detected near field communication event fulfills said defined trigger condition; and

providing said obtained indications, if said detected near field communication event fulfills said trigger condition.

15. Computer program product capable to providing indications of near field communication events on a near field communication device, comprising program code sections for carrying out the method of claim 1, when said program is run on a controller, processor-based device, a computer, a microprocessor based device, a terminal, a network device, a mobile terminal or a mobile communication enabled terminal.

16. Computer program product for providing indications of near field communication events on a near field communication device, comprising program code sections stored on a machine-readable medium for carrying out the method of claim 1.

17. Software tool capable to providing indications of near field communication events on a near field communication device, comprising program portions for carrying out the operations of claim 1, when said program is implemented in a computer program for being executed on a controller, processor-based device, a microprocessor based device, processing device, a terminal device, a network device, a mobile terminal, or a mobile communication enabled terminal.

18. Computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing instructions for providing indications of near field communication events on a near field communication device, which when executed by a processor cause the method of claim 1 to be carried out.

21. according to claim 18, wherein said processing unit is further configured for identifying the entity causing said near field communication event, determining a group of applications allocated to said identified near field communication entity, and granting said entity causing said near field communication event access to said allocated applications.

22. An apparatus according to claim 18, wherein said processing unit is configured for identifying, registering and grouping detected near field communication events.

23. An apparatus according to claim 18, wherein said processing unit is configured for obtaining at least one indication selected from the group consisting of playable sound files, video clips, vibration signalization files, splash screens, or images.

24. An apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising a cellular telephone.

25. An apparatus according to claim 18 embodied as a smart card.

26. An apparatus according to claim 25, further comprising means for categorizing various applications residing in the smart card module into different groups, and means for creating rules for making associations between the different groups for enabling allowing/denying responding to requests from an external near field communication reader device based on said rules.

27. An apparatus according to claim 26, further being provided with a dedicated user interface configured for receiving user input for creating said rules.

2. Method comprising:

detecting a near field communication event,

identifying at least one of an entity causing said near field communication event and one or more application requests received from said entity,

allocating a group of applications on said near field communication device for said identified near field communication entity based on the identifying information, and

granting said entity causing said near field communication event access to said allocated applications.

19. An apparatus comprising:

a processing unit

configured for detecting a near field communication event, obtaining at least one indication of near field communication events in accordance with said detected near field communication event, and providing said obtained at least one indication.

20. An apparatus comprising:

a processing unit

configured for detecting a near field communication event, identifying at least one of an entity causing said near field communication event or one or more application requests received from said entity, allocating a group of applications for said identified near field communication entity based on the identifying information, and granting said entity causing said near field communication event access to said allocated applications.

28. An apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to access

a secure memory element that stores applications into one or more groups, wherein the applications are grouped into one or more groups based on characteristics of the applications, and wherein

said controller is configured to be responsive to association rules that define association between the one or more groups in order to control access to applications based on the grouping of the applications.

29. An apparatus according to claim 28, further comprising means for categorizing various applications residing in the secure smart card module into different groups, and means for creating rules for making associations between the different groups for enabling allowing/denying responding to requests from an external near field communication reader device based on said rules.

30. An apparatus according to claim 29, further provided with a dedicated user interface configured for receiving user input for creating said rules.