System and method for visitor guidance and registration using digital locations

• US 9,730,068 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2013
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Sundar, K. Nagu, Kumar, N. Ganesh, Balaji, B. S., Dharmalingam, Vinoth
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Mehmood B
• Application Number:
  US14/060,469
• Publication Number:
  US 20150111536A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,386 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2011/04 related to queuing systems
• 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: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services

Abstract

A system including a smartphone or tablet of a visiting user accessing a web site and security system of a visited person, the security system having a secured area with the visited person located at a predetermined location within the secured area, the web site downloading an initial geographical location of the visiting user from the smartphone or tablet of the visiting user, a processor of the web site generating and sending a map to the smartphone or tablet based upon the downloaded initial geographic location of the visiting user and the predetermined location of the visited person, the smartphone or table displaying the generated map on a display of the smartphone or tablet guiding the visiting user from the initial location of the visiting user to the predetermined location of the visited person and the processor of the website dynamically updating the map displayed on the smartphone or tablet.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing, by a smartphone or a tablet of a visiting user, a web site and a security system of a visited person, wherein the security system has a secured area, and wherein the visited person is located at a predetermined location within the secured area;

downloading, by a processor of the web site, an initial geographical location of the visiting user from the smartphone or the tablet of the visiting user;

generating and sending a map, by the processor of the web site, to the smartphone or the tablet based upon the downloaded initial geographical location of the visiting user and the predetermined location of the visited person;

displaying, by the smartphone or the tablet, the generated map on a display of the smartphone or the tablet guiding the visiting user from the initial geographical location of the visiting user to the predetermined location of the visited person;

dynamically updating, by the processor of the web site, the displayed map displayed on the smartphone or the tablet;

generating, by the processor of the website, an identification token for use by the visiting user upon arrival that is used to allow the visiting user access into the secured area without involvement of a receptionist or any other third party;

detecting, by the smartphone or the tablet, that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area;

posting, by the smartphone or the tablet, on a social media website an indication that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area in response to detecting that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area; and

detecting, by the processor of the web site, the indication posted on the social media web site;

determining, by the processor of the web site, that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area by reading a subsequent geographic location of the visiting user;

automatically notifying, by the processor of the web site, the visited person that the visiting user has arrived in response to the visiting user activating a notify button on the displayed man.

2. The method as in claim 1 further comprising automatically notifying the visited person that the visiting user has arrived via e-mail.

3. The method as in claim 1 wherein further comprising automatically notifying the visited person that the visiting user has arrived via Facebook®

message.

4. The method as in claim 1 further comprising the processor of the website automatically granting entry access through the security system at the secured area.

5. The method as in claim 4 further comprising the processor of the web site sending an access token to the smartphone or the tablet.

6. The method as in claim 5 wherein the access token comprises one of a password, a personal identification number (PIN), and an identification (ID) service number.

7. An apparatus comprising:

a smartphone or a tablet of a visiting user that accesses a web site and a security system of a visited person, wherein the security system has a secured area, and wherein wife the visited person is located at a predetermined location within the secured area; and

a processor of the web site that downloads an initial geographical location of the visiting user from the smartphone or the tablet of the visiting user and generates and sends a map to the smartphone or the tablet based upon the downloaded initial geographical location of the visiting user and the predetermined location of the visited person,

wherein the smartphone or the tablet displays the generated map on a display of the smartphone or the tablet guiding the visiting user from the initial geographical location of the visiting user to the predetermined location of the visited person,

wherein the processor of the web site dynamically updates the displayed map displayed on the smartphone or the tablet; and

wherein the processor of the web site generates an identification token for use by the visiting user upon arrival that is used to allow the visiting user access into the secured area without involvement of a receptionist or any other third party,

wherein the smartphone or the tablet detects that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area,

wherein the smartphone or the tablet posts on a social media website an indication that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area in response to detecting that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area, and

wherein the processor of the web site detects the indication posted on the social media website, and

the processor of the web site determines that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area by reading a subsequent geographic location of the visiting user;

the processor of the web site automatically notifies the visited person that the visiting user has arrived in response to the visiting user activating a notify button on the displayed map.

8. The apparatus as in claim 7 further comprising the processor of the web site sending an invitation to the visiting user, wherein the invitation includes a navigation URL of the web site.

9. The apparatus as in claim 8 further comprising a web browser of the smartphone or the tablet that accesses the web site based upon the navigation URL.

10. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the smartphone or the tablet sends periodic updates of a current geographic location of the smart phone or the tablet.

11. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the processor of the web site updates the visited person with a current location of the visiting user and a time of arrival.

12. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the processor of the web site automatically generates a notification that is sent to the visited person indicating arrival by the visiting user.

13. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the smartphone or the tablet automatically generates a notification that is sent to the processor of the web site upon arrival at the secured area.

14. The apparatus as in claim 12 wherein the notification comprises one of e-mail, a Facebook®

message and a Four Square®

message.

15. The apparatus as in claim 7 wherein the processor of the web site automatically grants entry access through an entry of the security system at the secured area.

16. The apparatus as in claim 15 wherein the processor of the website sends an access token to the smartphone or the tablet.

17. The apparatus as in claim 16 wherein the access token comprises one of a password, a personal identification number (PIN), and an identification (ID) service number.

18. An apparatus comprising:

a security system; and

a smartphone or a tablet of a visiting user that accesses a web site of a visited person,

wherein the web site uploads a navigation universal resource locator (URL) to the smartphone or the tablet,

wherein the smartphone or the tablet generates and displays a map on a display of the smartphone or the tablet based upon the uploaded navigation URL,

wherein the displayed map guides the visiting user from an initial location of the visiting user to a location of the visited person,

wherein the smartphone or the tablet automatically notifies the visited person upon arrival of the visiting user at the location of the visited person, and

wherein the security system generates an identification token that is used to automatically grant access into the secured area by the visiting user without involvement of a receptionist or any other third party,

wherein the smartphone of the tablet detects that the visiting user has arrived at the location of the visited person,

wherein the smartphone or the tablet posts on a social media website an indication that the visiting user has arrived at the location of the visited person in response to detecting that the visiting user has arrived at the location of the visited person, and

wherein the web site detects the indication posted on the social media website, and

the processor of the web site determines that the visiting user has arrived at the secured area by reading a subsequent geographic location of the visiting user;

the processor of the web site automatically notifies the visited person that the visiting user has arrived in response to the visiting user activating a notify button on the displayed man.