Patent ID: 9258033
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04B,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for docking an NFC-enabled mobile computing device with an NFC-enabled docking station, the method comprising: placing an NFC-enabled mobile computing device in proximity to an NFC-enabled docking station; transferring docking-station information from the NFC-enabled docking station to the NFC-enabled mobile computing device using NFC communication, wherein the docking station information comprises the docking station's connector configuration and the signals to expect on each pin; reconfiguring the NFC-enabled mobile computing device's interface connector pins to electrically match the NFC-enabled docking station connector's configuration based on the received docking-station information; and connecting an interface connector on the NFC-enabled mobile computing device with a docking connector on the NFC-enabled docking station.