Patent ID: 9703996
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for managing communication between an integrated circuit (IC) card and a communication apparatus, the IC card comprising a plurality of decoders for a plurality of communication protocols to communicate with the communication apparatus based upon at least one of the plurality of communication protocols, the method comprising: routing an input signal received by the IC card to each of a plurality of decoders; routing output signals of the plurality of decoders to a protocol detection module, the protocol detection module for analyzing each output signal generated from the plurality of decoders in parallel, each output signal comprising a respective decoded version of the input signal using a respective communication protocol; selecting at least one of the plurality of decoders based upon a result of the analysis; and conducting a transaction with the at least one selected decoder; wherein the selecting comprises