Near Field Communication Mimic Device And Method Of Use

• US 20140040509A1
• Filed: 08/03/2012
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Stedman, Roy, Sanaullah, Abu
• Granted Patent: US 9,021,164 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/105 where the programme performs an input/output emulation function
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/0201 comprising specially adapted module bus-bar structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/02168 the coatings being antireflective or having enhancing optical properties for the solar cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/02366 of the substrate or of a layer on the substrate, e.g. textured ITO/glass substrate or superstrate, textured polymer layer on glass substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/0284 comprising porous silicon as part of the active layer(s) porous silicon as antireflective layer for photodiodes H01L31/0216; for solar cells H01L31/02168
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/0488 Double glass encapsulation, e.g. photovoltaic cells arranged between front and rear glass sheets
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/049 Protective back sheets
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/0504 specially adapted for series or parallel connection of solar cells in a module
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/068 the potential barriers being only of the PN homojunction type, e.g. bulk silicon PN homojunction solar cells or thin film polycrystalline silicon PN homojunction solar cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/1804 comprising only elements of Group IV of the Periodic Table
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 31/1876 Particular processes or apparatus for batch treatment of the devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 30/20 Collapsible or foldable PV modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/547 Monocrystalline silicon PV cells

Abstract

A NFC mimic device retrieves peripheral information from a peripheral, stores the peripheral information and then mimics the peripheral information to an information handling system so that a NFC device of the information handling system receives the peripheral information as if provided directly from the peripheral. The NFC mimic device supports automated setup a wireless interface between an information handling system and a peripheral, such as a projector.

Claims

1. An information handling system comprising:

a housing;

a processor disposed in the housing and operable to process information;

memory disposed in the housing and interfaced with the processor to store information;

a wireless device disposed in the housing operable to communicate wirelessly with a peripheral using configuration information;

an NFC device disposed in the housing and having memory, the memory storing configuration information, the NFC device operable to obtain peripheral configuration information from the peripheral and provide the peripheral configuration information to the wireless device to support wireless communication with the peripheral; and

a mimic device separate from the housing and the peripheral, the mimic device operable to read the peripheral configuration information from the peripheral, to store the configuration information in local memory and to communicate the peripheral information to the NFC device by mimicking the peripheral.

2. The information handling system of claim 1 further comprising:

a peripheral separate from the housing, the peripheral having a wireless device to communicate wirelessly using configuration information and a peripheral NFC device having memory, the memory storing the peripheral communication information;

wherein the mimic device is further operable to read configuration from the NFC device of the housing, to store the configuration information in the local memory and to communicate the configuration information to the peripheral device to support wireless communication with the wireless device.

3. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the mimic device comprises an NFC tag having programmable local memory.

4. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the mimic device comprises an NFC device having local power and programmable local memory.

5. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the mimic device comprises:

a first NFC device;

a second NFC device distal the first NFC device; and

a cable interfacing the first and second NFC devices to communicate configuration between the first and second NFC devices.

6. The information handling system of claim 5 further comprising a microcontroller interfaced with the first and second NFC devices and operable to store information received at the first NFC device and transmit the stored information at the second NFC device.

7. The information handling system of claim 2 wherein the mimic device comprises:

a first NFC device;

local memory operable to store information; and

a processor interfaced with the first NFC device and the local memory, the processor operable to detect information received at the NFC device, to store the information in the local memory, to detect a request for the information at the NFC device and, in response to detecting the request, to transmit the information from the NFC device.

8. The information handling system of claim 7 wherein the information detected at the NFC device comprises peripheral configuration information and the request comprises a request from the NFC device in the housing for the peripheral information.

9. The information handling system of claim 8 wherein the microcontroller detects information received at the NFC device in response to a transmission issued by the first NFC device that mimics the NFC device in the housing.

10. A method for configuring an information handling system to communicate with a peripheral, the method comprising:

bringing a mimic device into proximity with an NFC of the peripheral;

reading peripheral configuration information from the NFC of the peripheral to the mimic device;

storing the peripheral information at the mimic device; and

mimicking the peripheral with the mimic device by transmitting the peripheral information from the mimic device to an information handling system NFC.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

reading information with the mimic device from the information handling system NFC;

storing the information read from the information handling system at the mimic device; and

mimicking the information handling system with the mimic device by transmitting the information handling system information from the mimic device to the peripheral.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the peripheral applies the information handling system information to establish a secure wireless network interface with the information handling system.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein the information handling system applies the peripheral configuration information to establish a wireless network interface with the peripheral device.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the mimic device comprises a mobile telephone having a NFC and a processor, the processor running a mimic application that stores and repeats information received from an NFC external to the mobile telephone.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the mimic device comprises a NFC tag having a mimic initiator that initiates storing the peripheral information only in response to one or more predetermined conditions.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the one or more predetermined conditions comprise an acceleration detected at the mimic device.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the one or more predetermined conditions comprise pressing an initiator button on the mimic device.

18. A NFC mimic device comprising:

a housing;

a NFC disposed in the housing;

memory interfaced with the NFC;

a processor operable to store information received at the NFC from a electronic device having a NFC, the electronic device located distal the housing and to provide the information to the NFC disposed in the housing to mimic the electronic device.

19. The NFC mimic device of claim 18 further comprising a mobile telephone housing and a mimic application, the mimic application storing the information in response to a predetermined condition.

20. The NFC mimic device of claim 18 further comprising a re-programmable NFC tag having an acceleration detector, the processor storing information in response to an acceleration detected by the acceleration detector.