CLOUD AND SMARTPHONE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20140051407A1
• Filed: 08/16/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC (Allegion PLC)
• Original Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC (Allegion PLC)
• Inventors: Ahearn, John Robert, Baumgarte, Joseph Wayne, Focke, Gabriel Daniel, Henney, Michael Scott
• Granted Patent: US 10,171,974 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• 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 9/00571 operated by interacting with a central unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A method, system or apparatus including a server that may receive information from a computer, store the information in a database at the server, determine a reader device to receive the information based on an analysis of a reader device identifier, and transmit viral data to a mobile device where the viral data includes at least a portion of the information.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

transmitting a reader device identifier from a reader device to a mobile device via a wireless connection;

receiving the reader device identifier at a server from the mobile device;

determining via the server updated information for the reader device to receive based on an analysis of the reader device identifier, wherein the updated information is stored in a database at the server; and

transmitting viral data to the mobile device, wherein the viral data includes at least a portion of the updated information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the viral data to the reader device from the mobile device, wherein the viral data is transmitted to the reader device in a background operation of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless connection is a Bluetooth connection.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting status information from the reader device to the mobile device;

receiving the status information at the server from the mobile device; and

storing the status information in the database at the server.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

downloading at least a portion of the audit information from the database at the server via a computer.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

advertising via the reader device to establish a connection with the mobile device via Bluetooth communication.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a mobile device identifier at the server from the mobile device; and

analyzing the mobile device identifier and the reader device to determine whether to use the mobile device to communicate viral data to the reader device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the information comprises a user database for the reader device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the viral data includes a firmware update for the reader device.

10. A system, comprising:

a server configured to provide a cloud service;

a mobile device;

a reader device; and

wherein the server is configured to;

receive a reader device identifier from the mobile device;

determine updated information for the reader device to receive based on an analysis of a reader device identifier, wherein the updated information is stored in a database at the server; and

transmit viral data to the mobile device, wherein the viral data includes at least a portion of the updated information,

wherein the mobile device is configured to receive the viral data from the server and transmit the viral data to the reader device; and

wherein the reader device is configured to receive the viral data from the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the mobile device and the reader device communicate via Bluetooth.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the system is at least one of an access control system, a payment system, and a transit system.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the reader device is further configured to transmit status information to the mobile device, wherein the server is further configured to receive the status information from the mobile device, and wherein the server is further configured to store the status information in the database at the server.

14. The system of claim 13, further comprising:

a computer configured to download at least a portion of the status information from the database at the server.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

a server configured to receive information, store the information in a database at the server, determine whether to transmit at least a portion of the information to a mobile device based on an analysis of a reader device identifier and a mobile device identifier, and transmit viral data to the mobile device, wherein the viral data includes at least a portion of the information.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the server is further configured to:

receive status information from the mobile device, wherein the status information includes data related to operation of the reader device.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the server is further configured to:

host the status information for retrieval by a computer.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the information comprises a user database for the reader device.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the viral data includes a firmware update for the reader device.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein server is configured to communicate with an application on the mobile device that operates as a background operation on the mobile device.