Key control with real time communications to remote locations
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1. A lockbox access apparatus, comprising:
- a wireless communications device having a stored program configured to cause the wireless communications device to communicate an access request to a lockbox and, as a result of communicating the access request to the lockbox, to automatically initiate a communication to a selected destination to request approval of the access request.
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Abstract
A key control system includes at least one premise, a lockbox capable of securing a key to the premise and at least one mobile telephone associated with a user and having a stored access device program capable of communicating an access request to the lockbox. The premise is subject to authorized access by others, such as the user, based on preferences of an approval party established with the system. If specified by these preferences, the mobile telephone automatically initiates a communication to a selected destination to request approval of the access request.
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1. A lockbox access apparatus, comprising:
a wireless communications device having a stored program configured to cause the wireless communications device to communicate an access request to a lockbox and, as a result of communicating the access request to the lockbox, to automatically initiate a communication to a selected destination to request approval of the access request. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. One or more computer-readable media comprising instructions configured to cause a computer to perform a locking mechanism access method, the method comprising:
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receiving, at a server, a communication from a remote wireless communications device, wherein the communication relates, at least in part, to information that the remote wireless communications device has sent an access request to a lockbox locking mechanism; and sending, by the server, approval for the access request to the remote wireless communications device based, at least in part, on the communication.
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