Patent ID: 9294922
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A mobile wireless communications device comprising: a near field communication (NFC) transceiver; a geo-position determining device; and a controller coupled with said NFC transceiver and said geo-position determining device, said controller configured to: receive a tag geo-position from an NFC tag when in close proximity thereto via said NFC transceiver, determine the geo-position of the mobile wireless communications device using the geo-position determining device, and perform at least one device unlock operation when the tag geo-position is within a threshold distance from the mobile wireless communications device geo-position, the at least one device unlock operation including performing a general mobile wireless communications device unlock operation including an initial unlock operation to unlock the mobile wireless communications device from a locked sleep mode.