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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., Daly City, CA (US);
Inventors:
David Beilis, Toronto, CA;
Adrian Lee-Kwen, North York, CA;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); G06Q 20/409 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04M 1/72533 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for operating a mobile communication appliance enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) has steps for (a) positioning the communication appliance and an article associated with a person, the article enabled for NFC and storing a unique identifier, within a near-field threshold; (b) acquiring by the communication appliance through NFC the unique digital identifier from the article; and (c) using the identifier to select and initiate a particular functionality of the communication appliance.