Patent ID: 9628146
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A near field communications (NFC) device, comprising: an NFC router having a secure memory adapted to store shared data, the shared data accessible to a plurality of devices, wherein at least one of the plurality of devices is an external device; an NFC antenna circuit, wherein the NFC router is capable of operating in a card emulation mode in which the shared data stored by the secure memory is accessible via the NFC antenna circuit; an instruction memory different from the secure memory of the NFC router; and a host processor coupled to the instruction memory and arranged to control the NFC device using instructions retrieved from the instruction memory, the host processor further coupled to the NFC router and capable of accessing the shared data in the secure memory, wherein the NFC router is adapted to: