Site-specific access management

• US 8,025,222 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2008
• Issued: 09/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Builderport Technologies Incorporated, Cooper Range Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Copper Range Company (First Quantum Minerals Limited)
• Inventors: Ray, Randall L., Kochevar, Peter D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Labaze; Edwyn
• Application Number:
  US12/273,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20090101708A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,042 Days
• Field of Search: 235/382, 235/462.01, 235/472.01, 235/472.02, 235/487, 235/486, 705/26, 705/27, 705/14
• US Class Current: 235/382
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/26 Government or public services business processes related to the transportation industry G06Q50/40

Abstract

A system for ensuring access management of a given site by providing integrated and comprehensive assessment of persons, livestock or objects that are given access to the site. The system includes a database of information about the site and potential accessors, a mobile wireless communication and scanning device to collect, retrieve and facilitate communication between a device user at the site as well as an administrator console. This system is flexible enough to maintain current information about the persons, livestock or objects requesting access to the site and communicating those results to the device user in real time. The system is further enabled through the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Claims

1. A site-specific access management system comprising:

a mobile wireless communications device;

at least one identifier datum, wherein said datum is transmitted by said wireless communications device;

a base station receiving wireless communication of said datum from said wireless communications device, wherein said base station is connected to a network;

an application server connected to said network; and

a database accessed by an application program, said application program running on said application server to compare said datum with information in said database,

said mobile wireless communications device authenticated by sending a request to said base station running said application program authenticating said mobile wireless communications and scanning device as registered to access said database.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein said datum is a barcode.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein said datum is a manually keyed alphanumeric value.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said datum is a biometric.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said datum is selected from a group consisting of:

weight, temperature, dimension, electromagnetic reflectance, gas concentration, and chemical composition.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein said network is the Internet connected through the World Wide Web.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said application program runs on said application server.

8. The system of claim 1 further comprising an administration console in communication with said application server.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein said application program responds to a request from said device, and said application program responds to requests from said administrator console.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein said application program has computer logic for producing a report about people, livestock or objects present at said site.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein said report is communicated via said application server to at least one of:

said device and said administration console.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein said site is a workplace.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein said site is a livestock processing plant.

14. The system of claim 1 wherein at least one of a time of scan and global positioning system coordinates are communicated and stored in said database.

15. The system of claim 14 further comprising a second identifier datum that differs from the at least one of a time of scan and global positioning system coordinates that provides a tracking system within said application program.

16. A process for verifying site compliance comprising:

collecting information at a first site, said information being at least one of;

an identifier datum about a particular person, livestock or object with a communication and scanning device;

transmitting said information with said communication and scanning device;

verifying the authorization of said communication and scanning device transmitting said information by querying to a remote database by sending a request authorizing said communication and scanning device;

saving said information in said remote database;

transmitting a datum about the person, livestock, or object at a second site with a communication device to said remote database verifying authorization to transmit said datum to said remote database;

comparing said datum to said information to verify access permission of the person, livestock, or object to said second site to yield a comparison result; and

signaling said device with a comparison result.

17. The process of claim 16 further comprising opening a locking mechanism automatically when the comparison result is access permissive.

18. The process of claim 16 wherein said information is transmitted to a said remote database by way of a network.

19. The process of claim 16 further comprising the step of:

monitoring the comparison step from an administration console.

20. The process of claim 19 further comprising communicating a message from said administration console to said device.

21. The process of claim 16 further comprising a time of the collecting transmission for at least one of said information and said datum.

22. The process of claim 16 further comprising global position system coordinates of the collecting transmission for at least one of said information and said datum.