User management of door and elevator access control
AssigneeOtis Elevator Company
InventorsEmily Baldi, Paul A. Simcik, Yew Leong, Sheryl Brothers, Ashley Chapman, Eric C. Peterson, James Taylor
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Abstract
A method of controlling access to a building is provided. The method comprising: receiving visitor contact information for a visitor from a resident device, the visitor contact information identifies a visitor device of the visitor; receiving visitor access permissions for the visitor from the resident device, the visitor access permissions include at least one of a selected elevator car, a selected door, and a selected floor; and granting the visitor device access to at least one of the selected elevator car, the selected door, and the selected floor.
Claims18
A method of controlling access to a building, the method comprising:
- receiving visitor contact information for a visitor from a resident device, the visitor contact information identifies a visitor device of the visitor;
- generating on a user interface of the resident device a visitor access screen, the visitor access screen configured to display access permissions;
- receiving visitor access permissions for the visitor entered from the resident device via the visitor access screen by a resident using the resident device, the visitor access permissions include a selected floor individually selected by the resident via the visitor access screen;
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- granting the visitor device access to the selected floor individually selected by the resident via the visitor access screen.
A building access system comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- generating on a user interface of the resident device a visitor access screen, the visitor access screen configured to display access permissions;
- receiving visitor contact information for a visitor entered from a resident device via the visitor access screen by a resident using the resident device, the visitor contact information identifies a visitor device of the visitor;
- receiving visitor access permissions for the visitor from the resident device, the visitor access permissions include a selected floor individually selected by the resident via the visitor access screen;
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- granting the visitor device access to the selected floor individually selected by the resident via the visitor access screen.
A method of controlling access to a building, the method comprising:
- receiving visitor contact information for a visitor from a resident device, the visitor contact information identifies a visitor device of the visitor;
- generating access permissions for the visitor device based on existing access permissions belonging to the resident device in a user access database, the visitor access permissions include a selected elevator car accessible by the resident device, a selected door accessible by the resident device, and a selected floor accessible by the resident device;
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- granting the visitor device access to the selected elevator car accessible by the resident device, the selected door accessible by the resident device, and the selected floor accessible by the resident device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.