IP Library Granted Patent US 8,712,325
Granted Patent B2
US 8,712,325 · App. 13/784,157 · Granted Apr 29, 2014

Device, system, and method for logging near field communications tag interactions

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Patent No.
US 8,712,325
App. No.
13/784,157
Granted
Apr 29, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus, method and system for categorizing, parsing, grouping and displaying Near Field Communication (NFC) tags for presentation on a user device, including storing in a computer readable medium of a log of ones of the tags read by or written by the user device, assessing at least one category for each of the logged tags, and displaying, in conjunction with at least one indicator indicative of the respective at least one category, of each of the logged tags on the user device.

Claims (49)

1. An electronic device, comprising:

at least one processor; computer storage associated with the at least one processor; and a display;

the computer storage operable to store a plurality of data assets associated with a plurality of Near Field Communication (NFC) tags; and

the processor operable to group data assets associated with each of a plurality of NFC tags and to cause display of grouped data assets associated with each of a plurality of the NFC tags.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , comprising an NFC system operable to transfer data assets associated with at least one NFC tag from the computer storage to at least one other NFC-enabled device.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises a passive NFC device.

4. The electronic device of claim 2 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises an active NFC device.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , comprising at least one input device; the at least one input device operable to generate data assets to be associated by the at least one processor with at least one NFC tag and stored in the computer storage.

6. The electronic device of claim 5 , the processor further operable to display a user interface comprising a template useable by a user of the device to create data assets for storage in the computer storage.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises code associated with at least one computer executable instruction.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises at least one address pointer associated with data assets stored remotely from the device.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises content data.

10. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the processor causes the grouped data to be displayed in a visually divided format.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality of tiles.

12. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality of at least one of folders, color coding and icons.

13. An method of processing data associated with Near Field Communication (NFC) devices, the method comprising at least one processor of an NFC enabled device:

accessing computer storage associated with the at least one processor;

grouping a plurality of data assets stored in the computer storage with each of a plurality of NFC tags; and

displaying grouped data assets associated with each of a plurality of the NFC tags on a display of the NFC device.

14. The method of claim 13 , comprising an NFC system of the NFC enabled device transferring data assets associated with at least one NFC tag from the computer storage to at least one other NFC-enabled device.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises a passive NFC device.

16. The method of claim 14 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises an active NFC device.

17. The method of claim 13 , comprising:

generating, using input from at least one input device of the NFC-enabled device, data assets associated with at least one NFC tag; and

storing the generated data assets in the computer storage.

18. The method of claim 13 , comprising displaying a user interface comprising a template useable by a user of the device to create data assets for storage in the computer storage.

19. The method of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises code associated with at least one computer executable instruction.

20. The method of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises at least one address pointer associated with data assets stored remotely from the device.

21. The method of claim 13 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises content data.

22. The method of claim 13 , wherein the processor causes the grouped data to be displayed in a visually divided format.

23. The method of claim 22 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality tiles.

24. The method of claim 22 , wherein the visually divided format comprises at least one of folders, color coding and icons.

25. A non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause at least one processor of a Near Field Communication (NFC) device to:

access computer storage associated with the at least one processor;

group a plurality of data assets stored in the computer storage with each of a plurality of NFC tags; and

display the grouped data assets associated with each of a plurality of the NFC tags on a display of the NFC device.

26. The medium or media of claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause an NFC system of the NFC enabled device to transfer data assets associated with at least one NFC tag from the computer storage to at least one other NFC-enabled device.

27. The medium or media of claim 26 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises a passive NFC device.

28. The medium or media of claim 26 , wherein the at least one other NFC-enabled device comprises an active NFC device.

29. The medium or media of claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause the NFC-enabled device to:

generate, using input from at least one input device of the NFC-enabled device, data assets associated with at least one NFC tag; and

store the generated data assets in the computer storage.

30. The medium or media of claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause the NFC-enabled device to display a user interface comprising a template useable by a user of the device to create data assets for storage in the computer storage.

31. The medium or media of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises code associated with at least one computer executable instruction.

32. The medium or media of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises at least one address pointer associated with data assets stored remotely from the device.

33. The medium or media of claim 25 , wherein the plurality of data assets comprises content data.

34. The medium or media of claim 25 , comprising computer-executable instructions configured to cause the at least one processor to display the grouped data in a visually divided format.

35. The medium or media of claim 34 , wherein the visually divided format comprises a plurality tiles.

36. The medium or media of claim 34 , wherein the visually divided format comprises at least one of folders, color coding and icons.

Assignments (3)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 19, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064271/0199 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064104/0103 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 24, 2014
From: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
To: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 032331/0902 →