System for near field communication data conversion with an event-field

• US 8,923,769 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2014
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Original Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Inventors: Bukovjan, Peter, Gallo, Francesco
• Primary Examiner(s): WEST, LEWIS G
• Application Number:
  US14/247,522
• Publication Number:
  US 20140220890A1
• Time in Patent Office: 266 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/557, 455/466, 455/66.1, 340/10.1
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0242 Determining effectiveness of advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• 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

In one embodiment, a communication apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a near field communication circuit designed to update at least one event field, associated with a number of occurrences of at least one event, which converted from a first data coding format to a second data coding format and provided in an external communication message that is communicated automatically or in response to receiving an access command. Also included in the instant specification are communication systems, and methods of communicating.

Claims

1. A method comprising processing an external communication message for transmission by a near field communication circuit by

updating at least one event field that is indicative of a number of occurrences of at least one event relating to wireless communication by the near field communication circuit;

converting the at least one event field from a first data coding format into a second data coding format; and

transmitting, via the near field communication circuit, the external communication message in the second data coding format automatically or in response to receiving an access command.

2. The method of claim 1, further including receiving, via a second near field communication circuit, the external communication message.

3. The method of claim 1, further including receiving, via a second near field communication circuit, the external communication message and extracting the event field from the second near field communication circuit in response to the second near field communication circuit establishing an Internet connection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the least one event field is a marker indicative of a the number of occurrences the near field communication is accessed, and further including receiving, via a second near field communication circuit, the external communication message and extracting the event field from the second near field communication circuit in response to the second near field communication circuit establishing an Internet connection in order to determine the number of occurrences of the near field communication being accessed.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the event field is least one of:

a marker indicative of a the number of occurrences the near field communication is accessed, a near field communication circuit identifier specific to the near field communication circuit, an indication of the number of activations of the near field communication circuit, and an indication of successful selection of a near field communication circuit application; and

further including receiving, via a second near field communication circuit, the external communication message, and extracting the event field from the second near field communication circuit in response to the second near field communication circuit establishing an Internet connection to assess the event field.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the external communication message includes a web-address having an identification of the near field communication circuit that conveys data indicating that the near field communication circuit has been accessed.

7. A method comprising:

receiving, via a first near field communication circuit, an external communication message; and

processing the external communication message to access at least one event field that is indicative of a number of occurrences of the at least one event relating to wireless communication by a second near field communication circuit, the at least one event field having been converted from a first data coding format into a second data coding format.

8. The method of claim 7, further including transmitting, via the second recited near field communication circuit, the external communication message in the second data coding format automatically or in response to receiving an access command.

9. The method of claim 7, further including extracting the event field from the near field communication circuit in response to the near field communication circuit establishing an Internet connection.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one event field is a near field communication circuit identifier specific to the first near field communication circuit.

11. The method of claim 7, further including transmitting, via the second recited near field communication circuit, the external communication message in the second data coding format automatically or in response to receiving an access command, and extracting the at least one event field from one of the near field communication circuits.

12. A communication system comprising:

a first near field communication circuit configured and arranged to

update at least one event field that is indicative of the number of occurrences of at least one event relating to wireless communication with the first near field communication circuit, and

convert the at least one event field from a first data coding format into a second data coding format and provide the at least one event field in the second data coding format for an external communication message that is communicated from the near field communication circuit automatically or in response to receiving an access command; and

a second near field communication circuit configured and arranged to receive the external communication message from the first near field communication circuit.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one event field is a marker indicative of the number of occurrences the first near field communication circuit is accessed, and wherein the first near field communication circuit is configured and arranged to communicate the external communication message to the second near field communication circuit using a near field communication signal.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one event field is a near field communication circuit identifier specific to the first near field communication circuit.

15. The system of claim 12, further including a collector arrangement configured and arranged to extract the at least one event field.

16. The communication system of claim 15, wherein the collector arrangement is further configured and arranged to extract the at least one event field from the second near field communication circuit after establishing an Internet connection.

17. The communication system of claim 15, wherein the collector arrangement is further configured and arranged to extract the at least one event field from the first near field communication circuit.

18. The communication system of claim 12 wherein the message includes a web-address including an identification of the near field communication circuit, and the second near field communication circuit is included with a mobile phone, whereby accessing the web-address via the mobile phone conveys data indicating the identification of the first near field communication circuit and indicating that the first near field communication circuit has been accessed.

19. The communication system of claim 12, wherein the at least one event field includes receiving a dedicated command from the second near field communication circuit.

20. The communication system of claim 12, wherein the at least one event includes successful selection of a first near field communication circuit application by the second near field communication circuit.