Patent ID: 8768250

Claim:
A communication method, for communication between a smart card and an NFC contactless front-end chip, comprising: when installing a contactless payment application, the smart card recording a communication standard adopted by a contactless payment system corresponding to the contactless payment application, wherein the communication standard is identified by identification information provided by the contactless payment application; further comprising: for each card application gate, the smart card judging whether a contactless payment application corresponding to the card application gate exists based on the identification information; if yes, creating a pipe between the card application gate and a corresponding card RF gate in the NFC contactless front-end chip, and then performing, by the smart card, contactless payment related to the contactless payment system; wherein the step that the contactless payment application provides the identification information comprises: a contactless payment application program provides the identification information about the communication standard adopted by the corresponding contactless payment system in a version number; and wherein the program version number of the contactless payment application has a format of: AP ‘an identifier of communication standard’ ‘version number’; and the identifier of the communication standard is represented by letters.