Portal announcing method and system

• US 6,987,456 B2
• Filed: 03/23/2005
• Issued: 01/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kiel Safety Portals, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kiel Safety Portals, Inc.
• Inventors: Kiel, Gerald H., Kiel, Roberta
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Benjamin C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TANG, SON M
• Application Number:
  US11/088,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20050168342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 300 Days
• Field of Search: 340/573.1, 340 52- 55, 340 56- 564, 340/825.36, 340/573.3, 340/539.11
• US Class Current: 340/573.3
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/20 involving the use of a pass
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/02 Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed for providing an automatic announcement to a person seeking a particular portal in a facility that any particular portal is the one sought. The method comprises the steps of providing the person with a wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing a particular code, providing the portal with a corresponding wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device bearing the particular code, identifying when the code of the device of the person which has been received by the portal device is the same as the code of the portal device and announcing when the personal code and the portal code have been identified as being the same to the person that this portal is the one sought. This invention also has application to veterinary uses.

Claims

1. A system for providing an automatic announcement to an animal that any particular portal is the one sought comprising:

a first wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device to be worn by the animal and having a unique preset code for identifying that animal;

a second wireless, electronic transmitting and/or receiving device attached to said portal and having the same unique code;

said first and second devices directly communicating with each other;

means at the portal responsive only to the unique code at the second device for automatically identifying when the unique code of the first device of the animal has been received by said second device; and

means at the portal responsive to the identifying means for automatically announcing to the animal that this portal is the one sought in a way identifiable by the particular animal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the announcing means provides an aural command to the animal.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the announcing means provides a visual command to the animal.

4. The system of claim 1, also including a device responsive to said identifying means for unlatching a door at the portal so that the animal may pass through the portal.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said device is of the electronic and/or electromechanical and/or electromagnetic type.