Access control system with local mobile key distribution
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorAdam Kuenzi
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Abstract
A system includes an application on a mobile device operable to communicate with a local portal, the application is operable to receive a mobile key from the local portal and from that to retrieve a mobile credential for authorizing a user to access an access control. A method of local key distribution can include entering a pre-shared password to a local portal to encrypt a mobile credential; communicating the encrypted mobile credential to an application on the mobile device; and entering the pre-shared password to the application on the mobile device to decrypt the mobile credential.
Claims18
A system, comprising:
- a mobile application on a mobile device operable to communicate with an access control, the application is operable to receive a mobile key from the access control and from that to retrieve a mobile credential for authorizing a user to access the access control, the access control operable to communicate with a local portal to receive a pre-shared password based on information shared before a user's arrival to encrypt the mobile credential after generating the mobile credential to make the mobile key, the mobile key secured by the pre-shared password, the application operable to decrypt the mobile credential from the mobile key in response to entering the pre-shared password into the application, wherein the mobile key is secured by the pre-shared password and the user does not need to manage an account and associated password;
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- a mobile key card for the access control, the mobile key communicated from the mobile key card to the mobile application, the mobile key first communicated from the mobile key card to the access control and from thence from the access control to the mobile application such that the mobile key on the mobile application is operable to access the access control.
A method of local key distribution, the method comprising:
- entering a pre-shared password to encrypt a mobile credential, the pre-shared password based on information shared before a user's arrival;
- communicating the encrypted mobile credential from an access control to a mobile application on a mobile device;
- entering the pre-shared password to the application on the mobile device to decrypt the mobile credential;
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- communicating a mobile key first communicated from a mobile key card to the access control and thence from the access control to the mobile application such that the mobile key on the mobile application is operable to access the access control.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.