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Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Roger Brockenbrough, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Sang-Min Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Angelica Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0081 (2013.01); H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); G06K 7/10128 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless and/or inductive communications are provided in connection with improving remote NFC device detection through use of an oscillator circuit connected to an NFC antenna and matching network. In one example, a communications device is equipped to monitor frequency oscillations generated by an oscillator circuit associated with a transmitter path of a NFC antenna and matching network, determine that a number of occurrences of the frequency oscillations from a reference frequency is greater than a frequency deviation threshold, and perform a NFC polling procedure in response to the determination.


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