NETWORKED PHYSICAL SECURITY ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20120174182A1
• Filed: 01/13/2012
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Redcloud, Inc.
• Inventors: Neely, E. Terry
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/32 in combination with an identity check

Abstract

A distributed networked physical security access control system for controlling a plurality of security access devices includes access server appliances in communication with a primary network. At least one access server appliance includes an appliance management module accessible through a web browser in communication with the primary network. The appliance management module configures the access server appliances to a user specified security configuration. The access server appliances are in peer-to-peer communication on the primary network to bridge the access server appliances for providing consistency in each of the access server appliances.

Claims

1. A networked physical security access control system for controlling a security access device comprising:

a primary network including a user interface; and

one or more access server appliances in communication with the primary network, the access server appliances being in peer-to-peer communication on the primary network to bridge the access server appliances for providing consistency in each of the access server appliances.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the access server appliances includes an appliance management module for configuring the access server appliance to a specified security configuration.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the specified security configuration is replicated in additional ones of the access server appliances over the primary network.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein each access server appliance includes a local credential directory for storing access control information and a local policy directory for storing security access policies.

5. The system of claim 3 wherein the local credential directory and the local policy directory are lightweight directory access protocol directories.

6. The system of claim 4 wherein the primary network includes a primary credential directory and a primary policy directory and wherein each access server appliance includes a credential and policy module for synchronizing the local credential directory with the primary credential directory and for synchronizing the local policy directory with the primary policy directory.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein policies include login permission and group enrollment/de-enrollment, wherein the appliance management module configures the access server appliance to manage the credential and policy module.

8. The system of claim 1 including an access controller in communication with one of the access server appliances.

9. The system of claim 7 wherein each access server appliance includes an information technology management module for configuring the access controller to control the security access device.

10. The system of claim 7 wherein each access server appliance includes a situation management module for configuring a third party physical security situation management system to control the access controller.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein each access server appliance includes an information technology management module for monitoring the access server appliances and the system.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a backup server appliance that backs up each of the primary server appliances, the backup server appliance being a mirror of each of the primary server appliances for providing redundancy.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a backup server appliance that backs up a subset of the primary server appliances, the backup server appliance being a mirror of each of the primary server appliances in a subset for providing redundancy.