Transponder key replication
AssigneeRB Distribution, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Blalock, Michael DiGregorio, Matthew Barnard, Brandon Graver
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Abstract
A method for replicating a transponder key is disclosed. A first device reads a transponder code from a transponder key; captures bitting characteristics of the transponder key; and transmits the transponder code and the bitting characteristic of the transponder key to a remote location. An internet compatible device receives the transmitted transponder data and communicates it to a transponder duplication device at the remote location.
Claims19
A method for replicating a transponder key, the method comprising:
- inserting a first transponder key into a transponder key replication device;
- using the transponder key replication device to obtain a transponder code from the first transponder key;
- capturing an image of a bitting characteristic of the first transponder key using a camera within the transponder key replication device;
- providing a remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- transmitting the transponder code and the captured bitting characteristics from the first transponder key replication device to the remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- and,
- using the remote transponder key reproduction unit to apply both the transmitted transponder code and captured bitting characteristics from the first transponder key to a second transponder key located at the remote transponder key reproduction unit.
A method for replicating a transponder key, the method comprising:
- inserting a first transponder key into a transponder key replication device;
- activating the transponder key replication device and obtaining a transponder code from the first transponder key with the transponder key replication device;
- capturing an image of a bitting characteristic of the first transponder key using a camera within the transponder key replication device;
- providing a remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- transmitting the transponder code and the captured bitting characteristics to the remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- providing a blank transponder key in the remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- and,
- applying the transmitted transponder code and bitting characteristics from the first transponder key to the blank transponder key in the remote transponder key reproduction unit and creating, using the remote transponder key reproduction unit, a second transponder key that is a duplicate of the first transponder key.
A method for replicating a transponder key, the method comprising:
- inserting a first transponder key into a local transponder key replication device;
- obtaining a transponder code from the first transponder key with the local transponder key replication device;
- capturing an image of a bitting characteristic of the first transponder key using a camera within the local transponder key replication device;
- providing a remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- transmitting the transponder code and the captured bitting characteristics to the remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- programming the transmitted transponder code via the remote transponder key reproduction unit to a second transponder key located at the remote transponder key reproduction unit;
- and
- cutting the transmitted bitting characteristics via the remote transponder key reproduction unit to the second transponder key located at the remote transponder key reproduction unit,
- wherein, throughout the method for replicating a transponder key, the remote transponder key reproduction unit and the second transponder key are remote relative to the local transponder key replication device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.