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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2011
Applicants:
Lizhong Zhu, Waterloo, CA;
Libo Zhu, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Stephen Corrigan, Waterloo, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electronic device may include a housing including a speaker compartment, processing circuitry within the housing, and wireless transceiver circuitry within the housing and coupled to the processing circuitry. The electronic device may also include NFC transceiver circuitry within the housing and coupled to the processing circuitry, a speaker in the speaker compartment and coupled to the processing circuitry, and an NFC antenna positioned within the speaker compartment and coupled to the NFC transceiver circuitry.