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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
John Hillan, Farnborough, GB;
Dubai Chingalande, Farnborough, GB;
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/02 (2006.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/00 (2013.01); H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); H04B 5/02 (2013.01); H04W 76/046 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects disclosed herein relate to improving device activation among a plurality of NFC type-A RF technology listening devices. In one example, a communications device is equipped to determine that a remote NFC device of a plurality of resolved remote NFC devices, other than a last remote NFC device of the plurality of resolved remote NFC devices, is a target NFC device for a device activation process, and transmit a first sleep request to the last remote NFC device of the plurality of resolved remote NFC devices.