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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:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2013
Applicant:

St-ericsson SA, Plan-les-Ouates, CH;

Inventors:
Assignee:

ST-ERICSSON SA, Plan-les-Ouates, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/00 (2006.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3226 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3278 (2013.01); H04B 5/0056 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

It is provided a method implemented by an electronic device comprising a near field communication (NFC) system. The system comprises an NFC contactless front end, a plurality of secure element interfaces to which a plurality of secure elements are connected, and a processing unit adapted to control the NFC contactless front end and the plurality of secure elements through the secure element interfaces. The method comprises sending (S) an initialization command to all the secure elements through the secure element interfaces, upon exposure of the NFC contactless front end to an NFC reader. The method improves the field of near field communication.


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