Patent ID: 9071955
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication device that communicates with an external reader-writer apparatus, the communication device comprising: a timer unit configured to generate timer information; a near-field communication unit configured to receive time-of-day information from the reader-writer apparatus through near-field communication; a use history information generation unit configured to detect operation information of the communication device, and generate use history information on the basis of the time-of-day information received by the near-field communication unit and the timer information, the use history information including operation time-of-day information associated with the detected operation information and indicating the time of day at which the corresponding operation was performed; and a storage unit configured to store the use history information generated by the use history information generation unit, wherein the near-field communication unit is configured to: receive a polling signal from the reader-writer apparatus; transmit a polling response to the reader-writer apparatus to thereby establish the near-field communication; and receive the time-of-day information from the reader-writer apparatus through the established near-field communication.