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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2013
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Eric Thomas Eaton, Lake Worth, FL (US);
David Jeffery Hayes, Lake Worth, FL (US);
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Abstract
NFC-enabled systems and devices, and related methods, for determining the orientation of an NFC-enabled mobile device within a covering. The orientation determination may include determining which way each face of an NFC-enabled mobile deviceis facing in the covering, and which end of the NFC-enable device is oriented in which way in the covering, through the use of particular arrangements of at least one NFC device attached to the covering and at least one NFC antenna of the NFC-enabled mobile device. By determining the orientation of the NFC-enabled device within the covering, the NFC-enabled device may then be configured for executing a particular command, such as to optimize some aspect of the NFC-enabled device based on the device orientation.