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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2014
Greatcall, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Krijn van der Raadt, San Diego, CA (US);
Scott Brenton, Poway, CA (US);
GreatCall, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A portable communication device includes a processor, a memory holding data and instructions, a simplified user input interface for manually initiating functions of the portable communication device, a mobile telephone transceiver, and a short-range wireless communication transceiver. The devices uses the short-range transceiver to retrieve information from an external data storage device such as an NFC tag, and based on the received data, initiate a function of the portable communication device. Functions that may be initiated include pairing with another device, downloading and installing application software, and receiving and forwarding data from a health monitoring device.