Near-field communication and impact sensor

• US 9,294,155 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN
• Application Number:
  US14/376,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20140370806A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,488 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 reader;

an impact sensor to collect impact sensor data from an impact of the portable computing device and a second portable computing device; and

a controller connected to the impact sensor, wherein the controller is to transmit a near field communication code and the impact sensor data from the impact sensor through the wireless transceiver to a router of the network when the impact is detected by the impact sensor and when the near field communication reader reads the near field communication code from the second portable computing device when the second portable computing device is in range of the near field communication reader when the impact is detected by the impact sensor, wherein the impact sensor data and the near field communication code are to be used by the router to identify the second portable computing device.

2. The portable computing device of claim 1, further comprising a near field communication tag including a second near field communication code and a memory for storing the second near field communication code, wherein the second near field communication code is transmitted to the router when the impact is detected by the impact sensor.

3. The portable computing device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is connected to the second portable computing device and wherein the controller is further to transmit the near field communication code and the impact sensor data from the impact sensor through the wireless transceiver to the second portable computing device.

4. The portable computing device of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is further to transmit time data of the impact and location data of the impact to the second portable computing device through the network.

5. The portable computing device of claim 1, wherein the router sends is to send one of media, contact data, or setting data to the second portable computing device that was received from the portable computing device.

6. A portable computing device comprising:

a wireless transceiver to connect to a second device;

a near field communication reader;

an impact sensor to;

collect impact sensor data from an impact of the portable computing device and the second device; and

enable a passive near field communication tag of the portable computing device to transmit a unique code in response to an interrogation when the impact exceeds a threshold value; and

a controller connected to the impact sensor to;

establish a wireless connection to the second device via the wireless transceiver based upon a media access control address of the second device read with the near field communication reader, wherein the wireless connection is to transmit the impact sensor data to the second device;

receive second impact sensor data from the second device, to device;

compare the second impact sensor data to the impact sensor data, data; and

transmit additional data to the second device via the wireless transceiver when the impact sensor data and the second impact sensor data are within a threshold difference.

7. The portable computing device of claim 6, further comprising a timer to deactivate the near field communication reader after the near field communication reader is activated by the impact sensor.

8. The portable computing device of claim 6, wherein the impact sensor is further to activate the near field communication reader to poll for near field communication tags for a set period of time before being deactivated.

9. The portable computing device of claim 6, further comprising a memory of the passive near field communication tag to store the unique code, wherein the wireless transceiver is further to send the unique code to the second device.

10. A method of communicating a near field communication code from a device comprising:

detecting an impact of the device and a second device with an impact sensor of the device;

transmitting the near field communication code via a passive near field communication tag of the device in response to an interrogation from the second device, when the impact sensor detects that the impact is more than a threshold level, wherein the impact sensor activates the passive near field communication tag when the impact is greater than the threshold level; and

transmitting impact data of the impact from the impact sensor through a wireless transceiver of the device to the second device when the second device is detected within a threshold period of time after the impact is detected by the impact sensor, wherein the second device is detected by a near field communication reader of the device detecting a near field communication tag of the second device.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving power to power the impact sensor through a wireless power receiver.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

routing the near field communication code to a network device to complete a transaction.

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