System and Method for Access Control Via Mobile Device

• US 20130326595A1
• Filed: 01/09/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delphian Systems, LLC
• Original Assignee: Delphian Systems, LLC
• Inventors: Myers, Gary L., Hirpara, Ashok, Veleris, John D., Cohen, Michael Aaron, Nakshin, Eugene, Zimmy, Arkadiusz
• Granted Patent: US 9,781,599 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00571 operated by interacting with a central unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security

Abstract

A system is described for controlling an actuating unit that restricts physical access such as a motorized garage door actuator unit. The system comprises a mobile wireless communication device, an electro-mechanical access control security device, and a receiving unit controlling the electro-mechanical access control security device, the receiving unit paired with the mobile wireless communication device for receiving user input for activating the electro-mechanical access control security device via a peer-to-peer communication directly with the mobile wireless communication device, and a pre-authorization of communication of the receiving unit with the mobile wireless communication device, the mobile wireless communication device receiving the pre-authorization from a central security server.

Claims

1. A system for controlling physical access comprising:

a central security server;

a mobile wireless communication device supporting a plurality of wireless communication technologies including;

mobile wireless, and

short-range wireless;

an electro-mechanical access control security device;

a receiving unit controlling the electro-mechanical access control security device, wherein the receiving unit is adapted to be paired with a host on the mobile wireless communication device, and wherein the receiving unit is adapted for receiving user commands from the paired host for activating the electro-mechanical access control security device via a plurality of modes including;

a remote mode solely using a peer-to-peer communication directly with the mobile wireless communication device via the short-range wireless communication technology; and

a global mode using a pre-authorization, obtained by the host on the mobile wireless communication device from the central security server via the mobile wireless technology, for a user command issued from the mobile wireless communication device to the receiving unit via the short-range wireless communication technology.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the central security unit is adapted to store configuration information for a set of hosts, the configuration information being used to provide the pre-authorization to the host on the mobile wireless communication device.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the host and receiving unit are adapted to carry out an initializing pairing operation using encrypted peer-to-peer communications.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the peer-to-peer communications utilize Bluetooth short-range wireless communications technology.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein individual ones of a set of hosts are configured to operate in the remote and/or global mode on an individualized host-by-host basis.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the mobile wireless technology is a cellular wireless technology.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the mobile wireless device is a cellular phone adapted to execute application programs.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein the mobile wireless devices is a tablet computer.