Patent ID: 11949170
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 20:
21. An apparatus comprising:
a near field communications (NFC) controller to communicatively couple with a host processor, the host processor to execute at least one application; and
an NFC interface to couple the NFC controller with the host processor, the NFC controller to couple with an antenna to perform wireless charging with the antenna in response to the at least one application accessing the NFC controller for wireless charging, the NFC controller to activate wireless energy transfer via the antenna to transmit power to a receiving coil, and to perform near field communications via the antenna in response to input from a sensor to cause the at least one application to access the NFC controller for near field communications, wherein performance of near field communications comprises transfer of communication signals.