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• US 20130186154A1
• Filed: 11/22/2012
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alfred M Haas
• Original Assignee: Alfred M Haas
• Inventors: Haas, Alfred M.
• Application Number:
  US13/684,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20130186154A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 70/336
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 19/00 Keys; Accessories therefor key modifications or attachments preventing removal from the lock E05B11/005; key rings A44B15/00; key cases A45C11/32; key holders A47G29/10; making keys, see the relevant places, e.g. B21D53/42; milling grooves in keys B23C3/35
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 19/0088 Displays on keys, e.g. LED or LCD screens
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00507 keyless data carrier having more than one function
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7441 Key

Abstract

The invention disclosed herein relates to methods and means for opening, securing and/or operating vehicles, residences, locks, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses, and for storing, processing, transmitting, receiving and displaying or otherwise outputting data or other information pertaining to vehicles, residences, locks, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses, and/or pertaining to items, apparatuses, and/or entities which may be in such vehicles, residences, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses. Various embodiments of the methods and means of the invention may be performed by and/or implemented in hardware, in software, by one or more entities, and/or by some combination of hardware, software and/or one or more entities.

Claims

1. A means comprising hardware for opening, securing and operating vehicles, residences, locks, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses, and for storing, processing, transmitting, receiving and displaying or otherwise outputting data or other information pertaining to vehicles, residences, locks, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses, and/or pertaining to items, apparatuses, and/or entities which may be in such vehicles, residences, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses.

2. The means of claim 1 wherein the hardware comprises one or more of a cell phone, a tablet computer, a worn device comprising a microprocessor, and a personal digital assistant.

3. A method for opening, securing and operating vehicles, residences, locks, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses, and for storing, processing, transmitting, receiving and displaying or otherwise outputting data or other information pertaining to vehicles, residences, locks, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses, and/or pertaining to items, apparatuses, and/or entities which may be in such vehicles, residences, locked enclosures, and/or other machines and apparatuses.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein one or more steps of the method involves the use of hardware comprising one or more of a cell phone, a tablet computer, a worn device comprising a microprocessor, and a personal digital assistant.