Communications Connection

• US 20140011446A1
• Filed: 07/03/2012
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Kangas, Mika P., Huhtamaki, Jari J., Rautiainen, Jaakko J.
• Application Number:
  US13/540,956
• Publication Number:
  US 20140011446A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/00 Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/24 Inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

An apparatus including at least one coil; and electronic circuitry connected to the at least one coil. The electronic circuitry is configured to generate a magnetic field signal from the at least one coil. The magnetic field signal includes one or more data, where the magnetic field signal with the one or more data is configured to be used to create a wireless communication connection between the apparatus and a device.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one coil; and

electronic circuitry connected to the at least one coil, where the electronic circuitry is configured to generate a magnetic field signal from the at least one coil, where the magnetic field signal comprises one or more data, where the magnetic field signal with the one or more data is configured to be used to create a wireless communication connection between the apparatus and a device.

2. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the at least one coil is at least a portion of a hearing aid compatibility (HAC) coil.

3. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the at least one coil is at least a portion of an antenna.

4. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the at least one coil is at least a portion of an induction charging coil.

5. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the electronic circuitry comprises hearing aid compatibility (HAC) electronic circuitry.

6. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the one or more data comprises a wake-up signal and/or pairing information.

7. An apparatus as in claim 6 where the wake-up signal comprises a wake-up pulsed signal.

8. An apparatus as in claim 6 where the pairing information comprises ID properties of the apparatus for pairing the apparatus with the device.

9. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the apparatus comprises:

a first communications system comprising the electronic circuitry and the at least one coil; and

a second communications system comprising an antenna, where the second communications system is configured to transmit information from the antenna to an antenna of the device by radio frequency.

10. An apparatus as in claim 1 where the apparatus is a mobile telephone.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a first communications system comprising electronic circuitry and at least one coil, where the first communications system is configured to transmit a magnetic field signal by generating a magnetic field from the at least one coil; and

a second communications system comprising an antenna, where the second communications system is configured to transmit information from the antenna by radio frequency,

where the first communications system, by transmitting the magnetic field signal, is configured to at least partially pair a device with the apparatus, and where the second communications system is configured to subsequently provide a wireless communications connection with the device based at least partially upon pairing by the first communications system.

12. An apparatus as in claim 11 where the at least one coil is at least a portion of a hearing aid compatibility (HAC) coil.

13. An apparatus as in claim 11 where the at least one coil is at least a portion of an induction charging coil.

14. An apparatus as in claim 11 where the at least one coil is at least a portion of the antenna.

15. An apparatus as in claim 11 where the electronic circuitry comprises hearing aid compatibility (HAC) electronic circuitry.

16. An apparatus as in claim 11 where the second communications system is configured to transmit digital radio frequency signals.

17. An apparatus as in claim 16 where the magnetic field signal is an analog signal.

18. An apparatus as in claim 16 where the magnetic field signal comprises a pulsed wake-up signal.

19. An apparatus as in claim 11 where the magnetic field signal comprises pairing information including ID properties of the apparatus for pairing the apparatus with the device.

20. A method comprising:

transmitting a magnetic field signal from at least one coil of an apparatus by a magnetic field, where the magnetic field signal comprises one or more data, where the magnetic field signal with the one or more data is configured to be used to create a wireless communication connection between the apparatus and a device; and

transmitting information by radio frequency from the apparatus via the wireless communication connection, where the wireless communication connection is established based at least partially upon the transmitting of the magnetic field signal from the at least one coil.

21. A method as in claim 20 where the one or more data comprises a wake-up signal for waking up the device and/or pairing information for pairing the apparatus with the device for subsequent radio frequency communication via a radio frequency link.

22. A method as in claim 20 where the at least one coil is a hearing aid compatibility (HAC) coil such that the magnetic field signal is transmitted from the HAC coil

23. A method as in claim 21 where the pairing information comprises ID properties of the apparatus for pairing the apparatus with the device.

24. A non-transitory program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine, the operations comprising:

transmitting a magnetic field signal from at least one coil of an apparatus by a magnetic field, where the magnetic field signal comprises one or more data, where the magnetic field signal with the one or more data is configured to be used to create a wireless communication connection between the apparatus and a device; and

transmitting information by radio frequency from the apparatus via the wireless communication connection, where the wireless communication connection is established based at least partially upon the transmitting of the magnetic field signal from the at least one coil.