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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 26, 2014
Applicants:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Haijun Zhao, Beijing, CN;

Brian Spencer, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Haijun Zhao, Beijing, CN;

Brian Spencer, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); H04B 5/0062 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 8/183 (2013.01); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure is related to searching for a second device to provide a service that a first device is attempting to establish. The first device sends a search profile and a capabilities profile to the second device using near field communication (NFC), the search profile including criteria describing the service the first device is attempting to establish, the capabilities profile including connection capabilities of the first device, receives a score from the second device, the score indicating a closeness of a match between the search profile and the capabilities profile and one or more services and capabilities of the second device, and determines whether to connect with the second device to establish the service based on the received score.


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