Near-field communication functionality for partial applications accessed over a network

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12470253-B2
Application number	US-202418439117-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 12, 2024
Priority date	Nov 7, 2022
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

In some implementation, a device may execute a web-browsing application installed on the device. The device may scan, by a near-field communication (NFC) reader of the device and in connection with the web-browsing application, an NFC tag of an interaction card associated with an account of a user. The device may receive, from the interaction card, data associated with the account of the user. The device may store the data as coded data in the web-browsing application. The device may generate a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a partial application having reduced functionality. The URL may include one or more URL parameters containing the coded data. The device may launch the partial application based on a user interaction with a hyperlink associated with the URL. The partial application may parse the URL parameter(s) and may decode the coded data to be used by the partial application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A device to provide wireless tag functionality for a partial application accessed over a network, the device comprising:
one or more memories; and one or more processors, communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, configured to:
receive, based on executing an application and based on using the wireless tag functionality, data associated with a wireless tag of another device;
generate, based on receiving the data, a link associated with the partial application,
wherein the partial application does not include the wireless tag functionality compared to a full version application associated with the partial application, and
wherein the link includes one or more parameters containing the data received from the wireless tag; and

launch the partial application based on user interaction with the link,
wherein the launching causes the partial application to parse the one or more parameters, included in the link, to use the data.

2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the data indicates an authentication credential associated with a user of the device or an account of the user.

3 . The device of claim 2 , wherein the data indicates account information associated with the account.

4 . The device of claim 3 , wherein the account information includes an account identifier associated with the account.

5 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the application is a web application, and
wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
scan, by a wireless tag reader and in connection with the web application, the wireless tag; and
receive, from the other device, the data.

6 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the link is a uniform resource locator.

7 . The device of claim 1 , wherein the wireless tag functionality is near-field communication (NFC) functionality.

8 . A method of providing a wireless tag functionality for a partial application, comprising:
receiving, by a first device having one or more processors, based on using the wireless tag functionality, and based on executing an application, data associated with a wireless tag of a second device; generating, by the first device and based on receiving the data, a link associated with the partial application,
wherein the partial application does not include the wireless tag functionality compared to a full version application associated with the partial application, and
wherein the link includes one or more parameters containing the data received from the wireless tag of the second device; and
launching, by the first device and based on user interaction with the link, the partial application,
wherein the launching causes the partial application to parse the one or more parameters to use the data.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the partial application is executed within a web-browsing application.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the link is a uniform resource locator.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the second device is an interaction card associated with an account of a user.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the data is associated with the account of the user.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein the data indicates an authentication credential associated with the user or the account of the user.

14 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first device, cause the first device to:
receive, based on executing an application and based on using a wireless tag functionality of the first device, data associated with a wireless tag of a second device;
generate, based on receiving the data, a link associated with a partial application,
wherein the partial application does not include the wireless tag functionality compared to a full version application associated with the partial application, and
wherein the link includes one or more parameters containing the data received from the second device; and

launch the partial application based on user interaction with the link,
wherein the launching causes the partial application to parse the one or more parameters to use the data.

15 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the wireless tag functionality is near-field communication (NFC) functionality.

16 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by one or more processors of the first device, further cause the first device to:
execute a web-browsing application installed on the first device; scan, in connection with the web-browsing application, the wireless tag; and receive, from the second device, the data.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the first device is a user device, and
wherein the second device is an interaction card associated with an account of a user.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the data is associated with the account of the user.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the data indicates an authentication credential associated with the user or the account of the user.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the data indicates an account identifier associated with the account of the user.

Assignees

• Capital One Services Llc

Inventors

• Lutz Wayne

Classifications

• H04L67/146

  Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding · CPC title

• H04L63/083

  using passwords (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226) · CPC title

• G06K7/10297

  arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 (cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00) · CPC title

• H04L67/568

  Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching · CPC title

• H04B5/77

  for interrogation · CPC title