Method and device for the exchange of information

• US 20050250443A1
• Filed: 09/19/2003
• Published: 11/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH
• Original Assignee: Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH
• Inventors: Schneider, Markus, Rutten, Konrad
• Application Number:
  US10/667,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20050250443A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

The disclosure concerns a method and a process for exchanging information between a central information unit on the one hand and a person and/or an object on the other hand. In order to enable a rapid exchange of information that is simple to implement, and moreover to furnish a method that can be cost-effectively and easily incorporated into already existing communications systems, a method includes transmitting an identification signal via short-range radio from a radio module to a receiver unit and from there to the information unit, wherein the information unit processes said identification signal and generates an output signal, which is then transferred to a corresponding output unit.

Claims

1. Method for exchanging information between a central information unit on the one hand and a person and/or an object on the other, the method comprising:

transmitting an identification signal via short-range radio from a radio module to a receiver unit and from thence to the information unit, wherein the information unit processes the identification signal and generates an output signal which is then transmitted to a corresponding output unit.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein further comprising transmitting an inquiry signal from the radio module to the receiver unit, and is transferred to the information unit.

3. Method according to claim 2, wherein the information unit processes the identification signal and the inquiry signal and generates an output signal which is then transferred to a corresponding output unit.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein the output signal is issued by a transmitter unit as the output unit, wherein a corresponding signal is transmitted to the radio module.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein the output signal is issued via a signal processing apparatus as an output unit.

6. Method according to claim 1, wherein the identification signal is automatically transmitted from the radio module to the receiver unit as soon as the radio module is located in the area of the receiver unit.

27. Method according to claim 1, wherein the short-range radio between the radio module and the receiver unit and/or the transmitter unit is implemented via Bluetooth standard.

7. Method for exchanging information for identifying a person and/or an object for access into a secured access area, the method comprising:

transmitting an identification signal via short-range radio from a radio module to a stationary receiver unit positioned in the entrance areas, and to the information unit, wherein the information unit checks the transmitted identification signal and upon successful examination approves access.

8. Method according to claim 7, wherein an examination of the transmitted identification signal is implemented in a comparison test between an identification previously stored by the information unit and the transmitted identification signal, wherein access is approved based upon the identity of the transmitted identification signal and the stored identification.

9. Method according to claim 7, wherein the information unit checks the transmitted identification signal and upon successful examination approves a person and/or object to leaves the secured access area.

10. Method according to claim 7, wherein, following a successful identification of the person and/or object, additional information is transferred from the information unit to the radio module.

11. Method according to claim 10, wherein the transmission of additional information takes place only at the request of the person and/or object.

12. Method according to claim 7, wherein the short-range radio between the radio module and the receiver unit and/or the transmitter unit is implemented via Bluetooth standard.

13. Device for implementing a method for exchanging information, the device comprising:

a receiver unit and a radio module that is movable relative to this receiver unit, wherein the receiver unit and the radio module are connected to one another in terms of communications technology via short-range radio;

means for transmitting an identification signal via short-range radio from the radio module to the receiver unit and from thence to an information unit, and

the information unit processes the identification signal and generates an output signal which is then transmitted to a corresponding output unit.

14. Device according to claim 13, wherein the receiver unit is connected to the information unit in terms of communications technology, wherein the communication connection is a LAN network and/or a fixed network.

15. Device according to claim 13, wherein the radio module is a Bluetooth radio module.

16. Device according to claim 13, characterized in that a transmitter unit and/or a signal processing apparatus is provided as the output unit.

17. Device for implementing a method for indentifying a person and/or object for access into a secured area the device comprising:

a stationary receiver unit is provided in an area of the entrance to the secured access area which is connected to an information unit via communications technology;

means for transmitting an identification signal via short-range radio from a radio module to the stationary receiver unit positioned in the entrance area, and to the information unit, and

the information unit checks the transmitted identification signal and upon successful examination approves access.

18. Device according to claim 17, wherein a stationary receiver unit is provided in the exit area for the secured access area which is connected via communications technology to a central information unit.

19. Device according to claim 17, wherein a transmitter unit connected to the information unit via communications technology, is provided in the entrance area and electively also in the exit area.

20. Device according to claim 17, wherein the radio module comprises both a transmitter and a receiver.

21. Device according to claim 17, wherein the communications technological connection between the receiver unit and/or the transmitter unit on the one hand and the central computer unit on the other is a LAN network or a fixed network.

22. Device according to claim 17, wherein the radio module is a radio module based upon the Bluetooth standard.

23. Device according to claim 17, wherein the radio module is a separate, transportable radio module.

24. Device according to claim 17, wherein the radio module is connected to a communications unit, preferably a display, which displays additional information transferred by the information unit.

25. Device according to claim 17, wherein the receiver unit and the transmitter unit are combined and form a Bluetooth-LAN access point.

26. Device according to claim 17, wherein the secured access area is a parking garage or a parking lot.