SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LAUNCHING AND/OR DOWNLOADING APPLICATIONS WITH NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION TAGS
First Claim
1. A method of launching or downloading an application on or to a device, the method comprising the acts of:
- detecting a tag, by a device, based on near field communication (NFC) between the device and the tag;
receiving data from the tag, the data providing a smart code;
identifying an application associated with the smart code; and
launching the application by the device based on the smart code, wherein the application presents the data for the service associated with the tag, or downloading the application if the application is not presented to be launched in the device.
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Abstract
One or more applications are registered, managed, launched and/or downloaded using one or more near field communication (NFC) tags. In one embodiment, a NFC application is launched based on detection of a smart code that is in an NFC tag. The NFC application may be configured to write and/or assign a smart code to one or more tags. Another embodiment is directed to a web portal that may be accessed by the NFC application to download applications for presenting data associated with a tag. The NFC application may launch an application based on device placement in proximity to a NFC tag without user interaction, and also allow for writing and/or associating smart codes to NFC tags. The system and methods may overcome or at least ameliorate memory storage capacity limitations in a tag, and may advantageously reduce time and the need of user interaction when opening an application.
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20 Claims
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1. A method of launching or downloading an application on or to a device, the method comprising the acts of:
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detecting a tag, by a device, based on near field communication (NFC) between the device and the tag; receiving data from the tag, the data providing a smart code; identifying an application associated with the smart code; and launching the application by the device based on the smart code, wherein the application presents the data for the service associated with the tag, or downloading the application if the application is not presented to be launched in the device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A device comprising:
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a near field communication (NFC) module configured to detect a tag based on NFC between the device and the tag; and a processor coupled to the NFC module and memory, the processor configured to receive data from the tag, the data providing a smart code; identify an application associated with the smart code; and launch or download the application by the device based on the smart code, wherein the application presents data for a service associated with the tag. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein computer executable code for launching an application on a device, the computer executable code comprising:
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computer readable code to detect a tag based on near field communication (NFC) between the device and the tag; computer readable code to receive data from the tag, the data providing a smart code; computer readable code to identify an application associated with the smart code; and computer readable code to launch the application by the device based on the smart code, wherein the application presents data for a service associated with the tag.
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