TERMINAL, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING AN APPLICATION

• US 20130052949A1
• Filed: 08/08/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: LEE, Jong Kwon, YANG, Dong Ho
• Granted Patent: US 8,929,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• 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

A terminal includes: a near field communication (NFC) reading unit to acquire tag information via NFC; an NFC tag information processor to extract NFC header information from the tag information; and a memory to store the NFC header information. The NFC tag information processor analyzes the NFC header information, and installs and executes an application based on the NFC header information. A method for retrieving an application, includes: acquiring tag information; extracting near field communication (NFC) header information from the tag information; retrieving the application based on the tag information; and installing and executing the application.

Claims

1. A terminal, comprising:

a near field communication (NFC) reading unit to acquire tag information via NFC;

an NFC tag information processor to extract NFC header information from the tag information; and

a memory to store the NFC header information,

wherein the NFC tag information processor analyzes the NFC header information, and installs or executes an application based on the analyzed NFC header information.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication unit to communicate with an NFC management server,

wherein the communication unit communicates a request to the NFC management server based on the NFC header information.

3. The terminal according to claim 2, wherein in response to communicating the request, the terminal receives a list of applications corresponding to the NFC header information.

4. The terminal according to claim 2, wherein in response to communicating the request, the terminal receives installation information for the application based on the NFC header information.

5. The terminal according to claim 3, further comprising a display unit to display the list of applications.

6. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the installation and execution of the application is automatically performed based on the analyzed NFC header information.

7. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the memory stores a mapping between the NFC header information and a list of applications, and the application is selected from the list of applications.

8. A method for retrieving an application, comprising:

acquiring tag information;

extracting near field communication (NFC) header information from the tag information;

retrieving the application based on the NFC header information; and

installing or executing the application.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein acquiring the tag information comprises reading an NFC tag via NFC.

10. The method according to claim 8, further comprising communicating a request to an NFC management server based on the NFC header information.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising receiving a list of applications corresponding to the NFC header information in response to communicating the request.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising receiving installation information for the application based on the NFC header information in response to communicating the request.

13. The method according to claim 11, further comprising displaying the list of applications.

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein the execution of the application is automatically performed based on the extracted NFC header information.

15. The method according to claim 8, further comprising storing a mapping between the NFC header information and a list of applications;

and

allowing a user to select the application from the list of applications.

16. A system to retrieve an application, comprising:

a near field communication (NFC) terminal, comprising;

an NFC reading unit to acquire tag information via NFC;

an NFC tag information processor to extract NFC header information from the tag information; and

a first communication unit to communicate with an NFC management server;

the NFC management server, comprising;

a second communication unit to communicate with the NFC terminal;

wherein the first communication unit transmits a request to the second communication unit, the request to retrieve the application based on NFC header information, and the second communication unit transmits an identification of the application to the first communication unit in response to receiving the request.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the NFC terminal further comprises an NFC reading unit to read tag information, the tag information comprising the NFC header information.

18. The system according to claim 16, wherein the NFC management server provides a list of applications to the NFC terminal based on the NFC header information.