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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:
Oct. 06, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2011
Applicant:

Thomas C. Hill, Crystal Lake, IL (US);

Inventor:

Thomas C. Hill, Crystal Lake, IL (US);

Assignee:

BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); G06Q 20/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

A communications system includes a plurality of slave mobile wireless communications devices each having a first near field communications (NFC) device. The communications system also includes a master mobile wireless communications device having second NFC device, and a processor coupled to the second NFC device. The processor is configured to associate different content items with different respective slave mobile wireless communications devices, based upon NFC communication with the plurality of slave mobile wireless communications devices, and to send the different content items to the different respective slave mobile wireless communications devices.


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