Patent ID: 9503592
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F,H04B,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: generating a near field communication (NFC) field using an NFC enabled device; receiving, from an NFC tag associated with a printer, a set of data associated with the printer in response to the generated NFC field, wherein the set of data comprises information indicating data stored in at least one sector of the NFC tag; and determining a source for information related to the printer based on the data stored in the at least one sector and based on whether the data stored in the at least one sector has changed from a default value, wherein the source for information is either the NFC tag or a remote database, and wherein the source is determined to be the NFC tag in response to determining that the data stored in the at least one sector has not changed from the default value.