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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MasterCard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/38 (2015.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 1/3883 (2015.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0037 (2013.01); H04B 1/3883 (2013.01); H04B 5/0093 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A mobile device includes a housing and an antenna. The mobile device further includes a power-receiving circuit, and power-transmitting circuit, and a short-range communications circuit. The antenna performs multiple functions in that it is shared by the power-receiving circuit, the power-transmitting circuit and the short-range communications circuit. Each of the three circuits is selectively connectable to the antenna. The mobile device is configured to participate in a mobile-to-mobile battery-charge-sharing operation via inductive coupling from mobile device to mobile device.