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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Peter Laws, Swindon, GB;
John Waters, Bath, GB;
Inventors:
Peter Laws, Swindon, GB;
John Waters, Bath, GB;
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method is disclosed to negotiate communications parameters between near field communications (NFC) capable devices. In some embodiments, the NFC capable devices operate in a negotiation phase to negotiate one or more communications parameters prior to transferring information. In other embodiments, the NFC capable devices simultaneously negotiate the one or more communications parameters with the transferring of the information.