NEAR-FIELD COMMUNICATION AND IMPACT SENSOR

• US 20140370806A1
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Atkinson, Lee Warren
• Granted Patent: US 9,294,155 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0717 the sensor being capable of sensing environmental conditions such as temperature history or pressure
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07345 by activating or deactivating at least a part of the circuit on the record carrier, e.g. ON/OFF switches
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• 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 device including at least one of an NFC reader or and NFC tag. An impact sensor to detect an impact to the device. Wherein the impact to the device effects whether data is transferred to a second device.

Claims

1. A portable computing device comprising:

a wireless transceiver connected to a network;

a near field communication (NFC) reader;

an impact sensor;

a controller connected to the impact sensor, wherein the controller is to transmit NFC code through the wireless transceiver to a network if an impact is detected by the impact sensor and the NFC reader reads the NFC code if a second device is in range of the NFC reader when the impact occurs.

2. The portable computing device of claim 1, further comprising an NFC tag including a second NFC code and a memory for storing the second NFC code, wherein the second NFC code is transmitted to the network.

3. The portable computing device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is connected to a second portable computing device and wherein the data transmitted through the wireless transceiver to the second portable computing device includes impact sensor data about the impact.

4. The portable computing device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver further transmits data to a second device through the network, wherein the data includes at least one of NFC code, force data from the impact sensor, time data of the impact, and location data.

5. The portable computing device of claim 1, further comprising a connection though the wireless transceiver to a router to receive the data, wherein the router includes logic to identify a second portable computing device from the NFC code received from the portable computing device.

6. The portable computing device of claim 5, wherein the server sends one of media, contact data, setting data to the second portable computing device that was received from the portable computing device.

7. A portable computing device comprising:

a wireless transceiver to connect to a second device;

a near field communication (NFC) reader;

an impact sensor;

a controller connected to the impact sensor to compare impact sensor data to a threshold value and to establish a wireless connection to a second device from data read with the NFC reader to transmit the impact sensor data to the second device.

8. The portable computing device of claim 7, wherein the portable computing device receives second impact sensor data from the second device and compares the second impact sensor data to the impact sensor data and if the impact sensor data and the second impact sensor are within a threshold difference allowing data to be transmitted to the second device.

9. The portable computing device of claim 7, further comprising a timer that deactivates the NFC reader if the NFC reader is activated by the impact sensor.

10. The portable computing device of claim 7, wherein the NFC reader is activated by the impact sensor to pole for NFC tags for a set period of time before being deactivated.

11. The portable computing device of claim 7, further comprising a memory to store a unique code wherein the unique code is stored in the NFC tag and the unique code is sent to a second device through the wireless transceiver.

12. A method of communicating NFC code from a device comprising:

detecting an impact with an impact sensor; and

allowing an NFC tag to transmit an NFC code, if the impact sensor detects an impact of more than a threshold level.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising receiving power to power the impact sensor through a wireless power receiver.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising routing NFC code to a network device to complete a transaction.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the transaction is a financial transaction.