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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:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shantanu Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);

Timothy P Johnston, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Cary Bran, Seattle, WA (US);

Joe Burton, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Plantronics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/008 (2013.01); H04W 12/04 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mobile user device, configured to communicate over a wireless medium and a corresponding computer-implemented method is described. The mobile user device in one embodiment may comprise a near field communication interface for at least sending response information to a receiver in one or more near field transmissions; and a communication control module, connected with said near field communication interface. To improve the security of the mobile user device, the communication control module is configured to control whether said response information is sent by said near field communication interface in dependence of at least a communication safety parameter.


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