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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Broadcom Europe Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Heikki Huomo, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
Broadcom Europe Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); H04B 5/02 (2013.01); H04B 5/0037 (2013.01); H04B 5/0062 (2013.01); H04B 5/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract
An NFC communicator has a coupler operable to couple with a coupler of a near field RF communicator in near field range to enable communication of data between the communicators by modulation of a magnetic field, a demodulator to extract modulation from a modulated signal coupled to the coupler, and a modulator to modulate an RF signal in accordance with data to be communicated by the NFC communicator. The NFC communicator communicates with a data source and is arranged to at least one of provide timing data to the data source and receive timing data from the data source.