NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

• US 20130198056A1
• Filed: 01/27/2012
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Aldrey, Raul I., Lemus, Anthony M., Relyea, Donald H., Roberts, Brian F.
• Application Number:
  US13/359,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198056A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation

Abstract

Exemplary near field communication (“NFC”) transaction management and application systems and methods are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes a computing system tracking NFC transactions associated with a profile and providing a service based on the tracked NFC transactions associated with the profile. In certain examples, the tracking includes aggregating the NFC transactions associated with the profile over time. In certain examples, the profile comprises a customer premises profile specifying one or more customer premises equipment (“CPE”) devices for which to track the NFC transactions. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

tracking, by a computing system, near field communication (“

NFC”

) transactions associated with a customer premises profile specifying one or more customer premises equipment (“

CPE”

) devices for which to aggregate the NFC transactions; and

providing, by the computing system, a service based on the tracked NFC transactions associated with the profile.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the tracking of the NFC transactions associated with the customer premises profile comprises aggregating the NFC transactions associated with the customer premises profile over time.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the tracking comprises requesting and receiving an NFC transaction history from each of the one or more CPE devices specified by the customer premises profile.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises:

enabling access to a feature provided by a CPE device included in the CPE devices and located at a customer premises when the tracked NFC transactions indicate that a mobile user device is physically located at the customer premises; and

disabling access to the feature provided by the CPE device included in the CPE devices and located at the customer premises when the tracked NFC transactions indicate that the mobile user device is not physically located at the customer premises.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises modifying display content provided by a CPE device included in the CPE devices and located at a customer premises based on a physical location of a mobile user device indicated by the tracked NFC transactions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises modifying one or more operational settings of a CPE device included in the CPE devices and located at a customer premises in response to an NFC transaction included in the tracked NFC transactions, the NFC transaction being between the CPE device and a mobile user device associated with a user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises providing information about a physical feature of a customer premises.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the information about the physical feature of the customer premises comprises at least one of information about an installation of the feature, maintenance performed on the feature, and a contractor who worked on the feature.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises providing historical information about a CPE device included in the CPE devices and located at a customer premises.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the historical information comprises an NFC transaction history including information about at least one of a purchase, a delivery, an installation, and maintenance of the CPE device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises providing a maintenance notification based on the tracked NFC transactions, the maintenance notification configured to notify a user of a recommended maintenance activity for a CPE device included in the CPE devices and located at a customer premises.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises providing a user credit rating based on the tracked NFC transactions.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises authenticating a user based on one or more of the tracked NFC transactions.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the authenticating comprises using one or more of the tracked NFC transactions together with at least one other mode of authentication to provide a multi-layered authentication of the user.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the tracked NFC transactions comprise an NFC transaction between a mobile user device associated with a user and a biometric feedback device implanted in the user; and

the service comprises authenticating the user based at least in part on the NFC transaction between the mobile user device associated with the user and the biometric feedback device implanted in the user.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the service comprises inserting data representative of a certificate of authentication of the user into a communication.

17. The method of claim 1, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

18. A method comprising:

aggregating, by a computing system over time, data representative of near field communication (“

NFC”

) transactions associated with a customer premises profile specifying one or more customer premises equipment (“

CPE”

) devices for which to aggregate the NFC transactions; and

providing, by the computing system, a service based on the aggregate NFC transactions associated with the customer premises profile.

19. The method of claim 18, embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium.

20. A system comprising:

a plurality of customer premises equipment (“

CPE”

) devices located at a customer premises, each CPE device included in the plurality of CPE devices configured to track near field communication (“

NFC”

) transactions in which the CPE device participates, the tracked NFC transactions forming an NFC transaction history for the CPE device; and

a mobile user device configured to initiate an NFC transaction with each CPE device included in the plurality of CPE devices and to request and receive, by way of the NFC transaction with each CPE device, the NFC transaction history for each CPE device.

21. The system of claim 20, further comprising:

a tracking device configured to communicate with one or more CPE devices included in the plurality of CPE devices by way of a network to request and receive, by way of the network, the NFC transaction history for each of the one or more CPE devices.

22. The system of claim 20, further comprising:

a tracking device configured to communicate with the mobile user device by way of a network to request and receive, by way of the network, the NFC transaction history for each CPE device.