Mobile communications device-operated electronic access system

• US 20120210403A1
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Heidenreich, Georg, Leetz, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US13/369,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20120210403A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A mobile communications device is disclosed for use in an electronic access system for communicating with a central server for processing at least access authorization for an application running on the server. In at least one embodiment, an optical identification signal in the form of a barcode or a photographic recording of the user is captured on the mobile communications device in the form of an identification code and sent together with the mobile number to the server for further processing. The access authorization of the user for the respective application can therefore be verified on the central server. At least one embodiment relates in particular to medical and healthcare-related applications.

Claims

1. A mobile communications device for use in an electronic access system and for communicating with a central server for processing at least one user-specific and application-specific access authorization for at least one application, comprising:

a generator configured to generate a machine readable identification code which identifies a user of the mobile communications device;

a read-in module configured to read in the machine readable identification code; and

a transmit module configured to send the machine readable identification code, together with a device identifier in an identification message, to the server which is able to extract at least one application-specific access authorization from the identification message.

2. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identification code is an optical code and is transmitted as at least one of a barcode and an image.

3. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identification code is generated using an optical capture device which is assigned to the mobile communications device or is incorporated therein or which is read in via a data interface.

4. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identification message is transmitted in a packet and optionally includes a time stamp.

5. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the identification message is transmitted as a multimodal message.

6. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the device identifier is generated automatically from the mobile and is automatically added to the identification message.

15. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the identification message is transmitted in response to a verification signal.

16. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the identification message is transmitted as a multimodal message using the multimedia messaging service.

17. The mobile communications device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the device identifier is the mobile number of the device and is automatically added to the identification message.

7. A mobile communications device operated electronic access system for processing at least one user-specific and application-specific access authorization for at least one application, comprising:

a plurality of mobile communications devices; and

at least one server, each of the plurality of mobile communications devices being assigned to a user and being identifiable via a machine readable device identifier, wherein on each of the mobile communications devices, an electronic identification code identifying the mobile communications device user is adapted to be generated, read in and sent in an identification message together with the machine readable device identifier to the at least one server which is able extract at least one application-specific access authorization from the received identification message.

8. The mobile communications device operated electronic access system as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of the mobile communications devices and the at least one server are in data communication via a mobile network.

9. A central server for use in the mobile communications device operated electronic access system as claimed in claim 7, comprising:

a receive module configured to receive the identification message;

an extractor configured to extract the identification code from the received identification message; and

a linker configured to electronically link the identification code to the device identifier in order to control the application.

10. The central server as claimed in claim 9, wherein a result of the linker is stored in a database or is made available to other instances.

11. A method for processing at least one user-specific and application-specific access authorization for at least one application, said method being carried out on a plurality of mobile communications devices and on at least one server, wherein each of the mobile communications devices is assigned to a user and wherein each of the mobile communications devices is identifiable via a machine readable device identifier, the method comprising:

generating a machine readable identification code which identifies the user;

reading the generated identification code into a respective one of the mobile communications devices;

sending an identification message comprising the identification code read in and the device identifier from the respective mobile communications device to the server, the identification message being receivable at the server and the identification code being extractable from the identification message, at least one application-specific access authorization for controlling the application being useable to extract the identification code, and the identification code being electronically linkable with the device identifier.

14. A computer program product comprising a computer program stored on a machine readable media for carrying out the method as claimed in claim 11 when the computer program is executed on a computer.

18. A computer readable medium including program segments for, when executed on a computer device, causing the computer device to implement the method of claim 11.

12. A method for a mobile communications device for processing at least one user-specific and application-specific access authorization for at least one application, wherein the mobile communications device is in data communication with at least one server, wherein the mobile communications device is assigned to a user and wherein the mobile communications device is identifiable via a machine readable device identifier, the method comprising:

generating a machine readable identification code which identifies the user;

reading the generated identification code into the mobile communications device; and

sending an identification message containing the read in identification code and the device identifier from the mobile communications device to the at least one server.

19. A computer readable medium including program segments for, when executed on a computer device, causing the computer device to implement the method of claim 12.

13. A method for operating a server for processing at least one user-specific and application-specific access authorization for at least one application, wherein the server is in data communication with a plurality of mobile communications devices, wherein each of plurality of mobile communications devices is assigned to a user and wherein each of the plurality of mobile communications devices is identifiable via a machine readable device identifier, the method comprising:

receiving an identification message from one of the plurality of mobile communications devices, containing a machine readable identification code and a device identifier of the one of the plurality of mobile communications devices, wherein the identification code identifies the user of the one of the plurality of mobile communications devices; and

extracting the identification code from the identification message in order to extract from the identification code at least one application-specific access authorization for controlling the application, and electronically linking the extracted identification code with the device identifier.

20. A computer readable medium including program segments for, when executed on a computer device, causing the computer device to implement the method of claim 13.