Electronic locking system
First Claim
1. An apparatus for managing a locking system having locks mounted on doors within the system and keys to operate the locks, said apparatus comprising:
- a computer memory,means for listing in said computer memory the doors of the system having locks and labeling each door in the list as being either an external door or an internal door,means for entering in said computer memory data indicating which of said doors provides access to which other of said doors, andmeans for determining if an external door or external doors of the system provide access via a path indicated by said data either directly to each of said internal doors or via other of said internal doors of the system to each of said internal doors of the system.
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Abstract
A management apparatus for a locking system includes a computer memory, first computer means for listing in the computer memory the doors having the locks of the system, and second computer means for entering data in the computer memory defining the interrelationships of the doors, which data including the doors of the system which are accessed by other of the doors. A third computer means lists in the computer memory selected ones of the locks of the doors to be operated by each of the keys, and a fourth computer means determines if a path exists according to said data from an outer limit of the locking system to each of the doors selected for operation by the key either directly or via other of the doors selected for operation by the key. Another means determines if an external door or external doors of the system provide access via a path either directly to each of the internal doors or via other of the internal doors of the system to each internal door of the system.
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10 Claims
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1. An apparatus for managing a locking system having locks mounted on doors within the system and keys to operate the locks, said apparatus comprising:
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a computer memory, means for listing in said computer memory the doors of the system having locks and labeling each door in the list as being either an external door or an internal door, means for entering in said computer memory data indicating which of said doors provides access to which other of said doors, and means for determining if an external door or external doors of the system provide access via a path indicated by said data either directly to each of said internal doors or via other of said internal doors of the system to each of said internal doors of the system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A process for managing a locking system having a plurality of locks mounted on a plurality of doors, respectively and a plurality of keys which operate said locks, said process comprising the steps of:
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listing in a memory device the doors of said system having the locks of said system, labeling in said memory device the listed doors which interface to an outer limit of said locking system, inputting data to said memory device indicating which of said doors are accessible by which other doors of said system, listing in said memory device selected ones of said locks of said doors to be operated by a first one of said keys, attempting to locate a path from the outer limit of said locking system to each of said doors selected for operation by said key either directly or through other of said doors selected for operation by said key, and indicating an error when at least one of said doors selected for operation by said key is not accessible from the outer limit of said locking system either directly or via other of said doors selected for operation by said key.
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9. An apparatus for managing a locking system having locks mounted on doors within the system and keys to operate the locks, said apparatus comprising:
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a computer memory, means for listing in said computer memory the doors of the system having locks, means for entering into said computer memory data indicating which of said doors provide access to which other of said doors, and computer means for determining if some of said doors of the system are not accessible via other of said doors of the system according to said data. - View Dependent Claims (10)
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