Patent ID: 7734307

Claim:
A method for operating a near field communication system, including a plurality of participating near field communication devices, the method comprising: setting up a connection between respective participating near field communication devices by repeatedly changing, for each of the plurality of participating near field communication devices, an operational mode of a respective participating near field communication device between a target operational mode in which the respective participating near field communication device listens for a polling signal by other participating near field communication devices and an initiator operational mode in which the respective near field communication device sends out the polling signal to the other participating near field communication devices until communication is established between said respective participating near field communication device and another one of the plurality of participating near field communication devices, or until an interruption condition is fulfilled, wherein the polling signal is the first signal communicated between a near field communication device in the initiator operational mode and a near field communication device in the target optional mode, when setting up the connection.