Patent ID: 8903359
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A near-field communication (NFC) service protection method of a mobile device, the mobile device comprising an NFC controller, one or more security elements, a global position system (GPS), a display screen and a storage system, the method comprising: (a) acquiring a geographic location of the mobile device using the GPS; (b) setting a security code for an NFC service of each of the security elements according to the geographic location of the mobile device, and storing a security protection of the NFC service corresponding to each of the NFC services into the storage system; (c) selecting an NFC service from one of the security elements through an NFC service protection interface displayed on the display screen, and performing the NFC service by executing an NFC application stored in one of the security elements corresponding to the NFC service through the NFC controller; (d) determining whether any NFC service needs to disable the security protection of the NFC service; and (e) deleting the security code of the NFC service to disable the security protection of the NFC service if the NFC service needs to be disable the security protection, wherein the block (e) comprises: receiving an NFC service control password input from the NFC service protection interface; determining whether the input password is correct; controlling the mobile device to work in a standby mode if the input password is incorrect; deleting the geographic location of the NFC service from the storage system; and deleting the security code of the NFC service from the security element to disable the security protection of the NFC service, if the input password is correct.