SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY PROVIDING AN ACCESS AUTHORIZATION

• US 20130063246A1
• Filed: 02/22/2011
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Easy Axess GmbH I.G.
• Original Assignee: Easy Axess GmbH I.G.
• Inventors: Kim, Timotheus
• Application Number:
  US13/580,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20130063246A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.65
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

System for electronically providing an access authorisation for a user, to a location selected by a user, comprising at least one access report device, which reports a user identification of the user, which is in each case stored on at least one portable data carrier of an user having access authorisation, via a data network to a forwarding device, which electronically forwards the reported user identification via the data network to at least one access read device, which is provided at the respective selected location and which grants the user access to the selected location if the user identification which is stored on the user'"'"'s portable data carrier and is read off from the data carrier by the access read device corresponds to the user identification which is electronically forwarded to the access read device.

Claims

1. System for electronically providing an access authorisation for a user, to a location selected by the user, comprising at least one access report device, which reports a user identification (N-ID) of the user, which is in each case stored on at least one portable data carrier of an user having access authorisation, via a data network to a forwarding device, which electronically forwards the reported user identification (N-ID′

) via the data network to at least one access read device, which is provided at the respective selected location and which grants the user access to the selected location if the user identification (N-ID) which is stored on the user'"'"'s portable data carrier and is read off from the data carrier by the access read device corresponds to the user identification (N-ID′

) which is electronically forwarded to the access read device.

2. System according to claim 1, wherein the access read device which is provided at the respective selected location locally compares the user identification (N-ID) which is read out from the user'"'"'s portable data carrier with user information (N-ID′

) which is electronically forwarded to the access read device by the forwarding device, and only grants the user access to the location if the user identification (N-ID) which is read off from the user'"'"'s portable data carrier matches a user identification (N-ID′

) which is electronically forwarded to the access read device by the forwarding device.

3. System according to claim 2, wherein, after being installed and set in operation at the respective location, an access read device reports to the forwarding device and electronically receives the user identifications (N-ID′

) of the users who have selected the respective location.

4. System according to claim 1, wherein the access read device which is provided at the respective location sends the user identification (N-ID) which is read of from the user'"'"'s portable data carrier to the forwarding device, which centrally compares the user identification (N-ID) received from the access read device with all of the stored user identifications (N-ID′

) of registered users who have selected the respective location, and sends an access authorisation grant message to the access read device if the received user identification (N-ID) matches one of the stored user identifications (N-ID′

), wherein the access read device grants the user access to the location after receiving the access authorisation grant message.

5. System according to claim 1, wherein the portable data carrier is an electronic identity card of the user, comprising a readable identity card number as the user identification.

6. System according to claim 1, wherein the portable data carrier is a mobile terminal of the user, comprising a readable device number of the terminal as the user identification, wherein the mobile terminal is a mobile telephone, a laptop, a smartphone or a PDA.

7. System according to claim 1, wherein the portable data carrier is a user card or a user chip of a user who is registered on the forwarding device, comprising a readable member number as the user identification.

8. System according to claim 5, wherein the user registers himself as a member on the forwarding device with one or more user identifications (N-ID) of the user (2).

9. System according to claim 1, wherein the access authorisation to the respective location can be transferred from one registered user to another registered user, in that the user having access authorisation reports the transfer to the forwarding device while specifying the other user, wherein the forwarding device replaces the user identification (N-ID) of the reporting user with the user identification of the other user for the respective location.

10. System according to claim 6, wherein the access read device which is provided at the location additionally compares the spatial coordinates of the mobile terminal which is used as the portable data carrier with its own spatial coordinates, and only grants access to the location if the spatial coordinates virtually match.

11. System according to claim 4, wherein the user carries around a plurality of portable data carriers, which each have their own user identification (N-ID) of the user, wherein the access read device only grants access to the location (3) if all of the user'"'"'s user identifications (N-IDs) which are read off from the various data carriers correspond to the associated user identifications (N-IDs'"'"') which are electronically forwarded to the access read device.

12. System according to claim 1, wherein the location is a defined venue, for example a concert venue, a theatre venue, a cinema venue, a sports venue, an exhibition venue or a conference venue, or is a defined region within a building or is a passenger transport means.

13. System according to claim 1, wherein, after access has been granted, the forwarding device receives an access report for the respective user from the access read device, and forwards further specific location information data to the user, in particular a seat number, a standing region block number, an exhibition stand number, a parking space number or a ski lift number.

17. System according to claim 6, wherein the user registers himself as a member on the forwarding device with one or more user identifications (N-ID) of the user.

18. System according to claim 7, wherein the user registers himself as a member on the forwarding device with one or more user identifications (N-ID) of the user.

14. Access read device for an access authorisation system, comprising:

an interface for reading off a user identification (N-ID) from a user'"'"'s portable data carrier, an interface for receiving an electronically forwarded user identification (N-ID′

);

and comprising an evaluation unit, which compares the read-off user identification (N-ID) with the received user identification (N-ID′

) and grants the user access to the location if the user identification (N-ID) which is read off from the data carrier matches the electronically forwarded user identification (N-ID′

).

15. Forwarding device for an access authorisation system, comprising:

an interface for receiving a user'"'"'s user identification (N-ID) and a location which has been selected by the user; and

comprising an evaluation unit, which compares the received user identification (N-ID) with user identifications (N-ID′

) which are stored in a database, and, if they match, electronically forwards the user identification (N-ID) to at least one access read device which is provided at the respective location.

16. Method for electronically providing an access authorisation for a user, wherein a user identification (N-ID) which is stored on a portable data carrier of the user and a location which has been selected by the user are reported to a forwarding device, which forwards the reported user identification (N-ID) to at least one access read device which is provided at the respective location and which grants the user access to the location if the user identification (N-ID) which is stored on the user'"'"'s data carrier and which is read off from the data carrier by the access read device corresponds to the user identification (N-ID′

) which is electronically forwarded to the access read device.