Broadcom Europe Limited

Broadcom Innovision Limited

J.m. Stanneck, Limited Liability Company

Ian Keen

Heikki Huomo

Marc Borrett

Timothy Ward

Kevin Lamacraft

Peter Symons

Richard Underwood

A communications device configured to couple with a near field RF communicator, in near field range, to enable communication of data by modulation of a magnetic field. The communications device also including a secure element, having a plurality of memory areas with differing levels of access, configured to provide secure data storage for transaction data, wherein the levels of access are differentiated by a degree to which the plurality of memory areas are programmable, writable and modifiable. Further, the communications device includes a controller configured to read the transaction data from the at least one secure element, and to cause a modulator to modulate the RF signal in accordance with transaction data read from the secure element so as to communicate the read transaction data to the near field RF communicator as proof of the transaction to enable an action related to the transaction to be carried out.

Communications devices comprising NFC communicators

A communications device has a NFC communicator () having a coupler () to couple with a coupler of a near field RF communicator in near field range to enable communication of data between the communicators by modulation of a magnetic field, a demodulator () to extract modulation from a modulated signal coupled to the coupler and a modulator () to modulate an RF signal in accordance with data to be communicated by the NFC communicator. The device also has at least one secure element () separate from the near field RF communicator () to provide secure data storage for transaction data representing or relating to a transaction. A controller controls operation of the NFC communicator, reads transaction data from the at least one secure element and causes the modulator to modulate an RF signal in accordance with transaction data read from the at least one secure element so as to communicate the read transaction data to a near field RF communicator in near field range as proof of the transaction to enable an action related to the transaction to be carried out.

A variable configuration apparatus has components or sub-systems. At least some components (and) have mechanical coupling elements (andand) that enable the configuration of the apparatus to be varied by changing at least one of the relative orientation and position of those components or subsystems. These mechanical coupling elements (andand) incorporate wireless signal coupling elements (and) that cooperate to provide a wireless coupling which enables wireless coupling between the components. The wireless coupling may be used to transfer at least one of data and power between the components. The wireless signal coupling elements may be capacitive coupling elements that provide capacitive coupling between the components or sub-systems. In an example, the apparatus is a video camera and one component or sub-system is a display screen () and another component or sub-system is the main body () of the video camera ().

Variable configuration apparatus

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Yately, United Kingdom

Ian Keen