Wireless ultra-low power portable lock
AssigneeVelo Labs, Inc.
InventorsJack Al-Kahwati, Gerardo Barroeta Perez
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Abstract
A wireless ultra-low power portable lock may be realized as a lock apparatus including: a locking mechanism having at least locked and unlocked states, the locking mechanism operable to provide physical resistance to being unlocked when in the locked state; an actuator operable to move the locking mechanism from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to a received signal; and a controlling unit configured to control the actuator and to receive one or more signals from one or more devices external to the lock apparatus.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- searching, at an electronic device, for nearby devices to identify a list of at least one lock apparatus;
- establishing, at the electronic device, a wireless connection with a lock apparatus from the list of at least one lock apparatus;
- retrieving, at the electronic device from a database, credentials:
- submitting, from the electronic device to the lock apparatus, the credentials to authenticate a user;
- and
- sending instructions, from the electronic device to the lock apparatus, to control the lock apparatus based on user input, wherein the controlling of the lock apparatus includes locking the lock apparatus, unlocking the lock apparatus, and setting one or more configuration settings of the lock apparatus.
An electronic device for communicating with a lock apparatus, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor coupled with the memory that is configured to cause the processor to:
- search for nearby devices to identify a list of at least one lock apparatus;
- establish, with a lock apparatus from the list of at least one lock apparatus, a wireless connection;
- retrieve, at the electronic device from a database, credentials;
- submit, to the lock apparatus, the credentials to authenticate a user;
- and
- send, to the lock apparatus, instructions to control the lock apparatus based on user input, wherein the controlling of the lock apparatus includes locking the lock apparatus, unlocking the lock apparatus, and setting one or more configuration settings of the lock apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.