Method and system for preventing shopping cart theft
AssigneeNomil Ltd.
InventorsYehuda Margalit, Ruth Margalit
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Abstract
The present invention provides a system and method for preventing theft of mobile objects which are used by for temporary time period by anonymous users. The system is comprised of: at least one locking mechanism engaging a mobile object to a secure locking arrangement, wherein the locking mechanism can be unlocked by a remote communication device, an identifying tag attached to said mobile object including an identifying code, a controller network device including identification data of plurality of mobile objects, said controller device is enabled to send unlocking instruction to at least one locking mechanism and a mobile communication device enabled to send electronic message to said controller network device.
Claims8
A system for mobile object management, said system comprised of:
- a secure locking arrangement for controlling usage of a mobile object;
- an identifying tag attached to said mobile object including an identifying code;
- and
- a server configured to implement a process including
- recording the identifying code of the mobile object,
- receiving, from a mobile communication device of a user, a request message requesting use of the mobile object, including the identifying code of the mobile object and ID of the user
- testing to determine if the received ID of the user is in a blacklist designating users having unreturned mobile objects and issuing a denial message if the received ID of the user is found in the blacklist,
- responsive to not detecting a denial message, sending a release command including the identifying code to the secure locking arrangement, causing the release of the mobile object,
- associating the identifying code of the mobile object with the ID of the user, and
- responsive to not receiving during a pre-defined time period a locked status from the secure locking arrangement indicating return of the mobile object identified by the identifying code, sending an alert to the mobile communication device identified by the number of the mobile communication device.
A method for mobile object management, said method comprising the steps of:
- securing a mobile object to a secure locking arrangement;
- attaching an identification tag to the mobile object including an identifying code;
- and
- operating a server configured to implement a process including
- recording the identifying code of the mobile object,
- receiving from a mobile communication device of a user a request message including the identifying code and a ID of the user,
- testing to deny permission, due to the ID of the user being in a blacklist designating users having unreturned mobile objects,
- responsively to no denial of permission, sending a release command to the secure locking arrangement, thereby unlocking the mobile object,
- associating the identifying code of the mobile object with the ID of the user, and
- responsively to not receiving during a pre-defined time period a locked status from the secure locking arrangement indicating return of the mobile object identified by the identifying code, sending an alert to the mobile communication device identified by the ID of the user.
A system for mobile object management, said system comprised of:
- a secure locking arrangement for controlling usage of a mobile object;
- an identifying tag attached to said mobile object including an identifying code;
- and
- a server configured to implement a process including
- recording the identifying code of the mobile object,
- receiving, from a local communication device which communicates with an ID card of the user, a request message requesting use of the mobile object, including the identifying code of the mobile object and ID of the user
- testing to determine if the received ID of the user is in a blacklist designating users having unreturned mobile objects and issuing a denial message if the received ID of the user is found in the blacklist,
- responsive to not detecting a denial message, sending a release command including the identifying code to the secure locking arrangement, causing the release of the mobile object,
- associating the identifying code of the mobile object with the ID of the user, and
- responsive to not receiving during a pre-defined time period a locked status from the secure locking arrangement indicating return of the mobile object identified by the identifying code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.