US 11,706,622 B1
Methods, systems, and media for protected near-field communications
Eoin Carroll, Midleton (IE)
Assigned to McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/828,856.
Application 17/828,856 is a continuation of application No. 16/744,888, filed on Jan. 16, 2020, granted, now 11,375,371.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/955,709, filed on Dec. 31, 2019.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 12/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/069 (2021.01); H04W 12/033 (2021.01); H04W 12/50 (2021.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 12/069 (2021.01) [H04L 63/04 (2013.01); H04W 12/033 (2021.01); H04W 12/50 (2021.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for protected near-field communications, comprising:
receiving, by an NFC reader device, an NFC tag device ID of an NFC tag device;
determining whether the received NFC tag device ID matches an NFC tag device ID stored in memory of the NFC reader device;
in response to determining that the received NFC tag device ID matches the NFC tag device ID stored in the memory of the NFC reader device, transmitting a password to the NFC tag device;
receiving, from the NFC tag device, a shared secret;
determining whether the received shared secret matches a shared secret stored in the memory of the NFC reader device; and
in response to determining that the received shared secret matches the shared secret stored in the memory of the NFC reader device, causing an action to be performed by a device associated with the NFC reader device.