SECURITY ENHANCEMENT FOR SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS TOKENS

摘要

An approach for facilitating secured use of short-range wireless tokens is disclosed. In some implementations, a short-range wireless token may be wirelessly powered based on the short-range wireless token being within a powering range of an electromagnetic field of a user device. The short-range wireless token may be configured to generate output signals while being powered. The output signals of the short-range wireless token may be disabled while the short-range wireless token continues to be powered by the electromagnetic field based on a predetermined condition determined by the short-range wireless token. The output signals of the short-range wireless token may be re-enabled based on a discontinuing of the powering of the short-range wireless token by the electromagnetic field and then a resuming of the powering of the short-range wireless token by the electromagnetic field.

主权项

1. A method for facilitating secured use of short-range wireless tokens, the method comprising:
wirelessly powering a short-range wireless token based on the short-range wireless token being within a powering range of an electromagnetic field of a user device, the short-range wireless token configured to generate output signals while being powered; disabling the output signals of the short-range wireless token while the short-range wireless token continues to be powered by the electromagnetic field based on a predetermined condition determined by the short-range wireless token such that the output signals remain disabled for at least as long as the short-range wireless token continues to be powered by the electromagnetic field; and re-enabling the output signals of the short-range wireless token based on a discontinuing of the powering of the short-range wireless token by the electromagnetic field and then a resuming of the powering of the short-range wireless token by the electromagnetic field.