INTERACTIVE ID SYSTEM USING MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20110165859A1
• Filed: 01/04/2010
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piece Future Pte., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Wengrovitz, Michael S.
• Granted Patent: US 8,731,583 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An interactive ID system enables dynamic delivery of content to a mobile device of a person on a campus. The system includes an interactive ID server coupled to receive a tag ID of a near field communication (NFC) tag and a reader ID of an NFC reader in communication with the NFC tag, in which one of the NFC tag and the NFC reader is on the mobile device and either the tag ID or the reader ID is associated with the person. The interactive ID server determines and communicates the content provided to the mobile device.

Claims

1. An interactive identity (ID) server, comprising:

an interface coupled to a network to receive a tag ID of a near field communication (NFC) tag and a reader ID of an NFC reader in communication with the NFC tag, the tag ID or the reader ID being associated with an authorized person on a campus, one of the NFC tag and NFC reader being on a mobile device of the authorized person;

a processor coupled to the interface to receive the tag ID and the reader ID and operable to determine content to be provided to the mobile device of the authorized person based on the tag ID and the reader ID and to communicate the content to the mobile device.

2. The interactive ID server of claim 1, wherein the interface includes:

a network interface coupled to a local area network (LAN) of the campus; and

an external interface coupled to an additional network, the additional network including a wireless access network for communicating with the mobile device;

wherein the processor is operable to communicate the content to the mobile device via the external interface.

3. The interactive ID server of claim 2, wherein the additional network further includes a communication network coupled to the external interface and the wireless access network.

4. The interactive ID server of claim 2, wherein the network interface is coupled to one of the NFC reader and the NFC tag and a legacy ID server of the campus via the LAN.

5. The interactive ID server of claim 4, wherein the network interface is operable to receive the tag ID and the reader ID from the NFC reader coupled to the LAN.

6. The interactive ID server of claim 5, wherein the network interface is operable to intercept the tag ID and reader ID transmitted from the NFC reader to the legacy ID server and to relay the tag ID and student ID into the legacy ID server.

7. The interactive ID server of claim 5, wherein the network interface is operable to receive the tag ID and the reader ID transmitted from the NFC reader to the legacy ID server via sniffed data packets from the LAN.

8. The interactive ID server of claim 5, wherein the network interface is operable to receive the tag ID and the reader ID transmitted from the NFC reader to the interactive ID server.

9. The interactive ID server of claim 5, wherein the network interface is operable to receive the tag ID and the reader ID from the legacy ID server, the legacy ID server transmitting the tag ID and the reader ID to the interactive ID server upon reception thereof from the NFC reader.

10. The interactive ID server of claim 4, wherein the external interface is operable to receive the tag ID and the reader ID from the NFC reader on the mobile device.

11. The interactive ID server of claim 10, wherein the network interface is coupled to provide the tag ID and the reader ID to a legacy ID server of the campus.

12. The interactive ID server of claim 4, wherein:

the processor is further operable to determine parameters of the content from the tag ID and the reader ID and identify data needed to satisfy the parameters; and

the network interface is operable to retrieve at least a portion of the data for the content from the legacy ID server.

13. The interactive ID server of claim 1, wherein the content is communicated to the mobile device via at least one of a telephone call, short message system (SMS) message or a data push notification message.

14. The interactive ID server of claim 13, wherein the content includes a recorded message that is communicated to the mobile device via the telephone call and the processor is further operable to establish the telephone call between the mobile device and a recorder to play the recorded message to the authorized person.

15. The interactive ID server of claim 13, wherein the content includes at least one of data or a uniform resource locator (URL) of a website containing additional information that is communicated to the mobile device via an SMS message or a data push notification message by the processor.

16. A mobile device providing interactive identity (ID) services, comprising:

a first near field communication (NFC) device in communication with a second near field communication (NFC) device to provide a tag ID and a reader ID to an interactive ID server coupled to a local area network of a campus, one of the first NFC device and the second NFC device being an NFC tag having the tag ID and the other of the first NFC device and the second NFC device being an NFC reader having the reader ID;

a transceiver coupled to a wireless access network to receive content from the interactive ID server based on the tag ID and the reader ID; and

a processor coupled to the transceiver to process the content and provide the content to a user of the mobile device.

17. The mobile device of claim 16, wherein:

the first NFC device is the NFC reader and the second NFC device is the NFC tag;

the first NFC device is operable to receive the tag ID from the NFC tag; and

the processor is operable to transmit the reader ID of the NFC reader and the tag ID of the NFC tag to the interactive ID server via the transceiver and the wireless access network.

18. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the mobile device further includes a memory maintaining an interactive ID application downloaded from an on-line application store and the processor is coupled to the memory to execute instructions of the interactive ID application to transmit the reader ID of the NFC reader and the tag ID of the NFC tag to the interactive ID server and to process content received from the interactive ID server.

19. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the content includes one or more of a phone call, a recorded message, a uniform resource locator (URL) of a website and data that is received via one or more of a telephone call, short message system (SMS) message and a data push notification message

20. A method for dynamic delivery of content to a mobile device on a campus, the method comprising:

receiving a tag identity (ID) of a near field communication (NFC) tag and a reader ID of an NFC reader in communication with the NFC tag at an interactive ID server on the campus, one of the NFC tag and the NFC reader being on the mobile device;

determining content to be provided to the mobile device based on the tag ID and the reader ID;

communicating the content to the mobile device via a wireless access network.