Access control system using mobile device
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsJayaprakash Meruva, Chaithanya Holla, KamalaKannan Balraj
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Abstract
A method of controlling access through a door may include storing a user's digital identity and a user's access policy in a memory of the user's mobile device, which may use the stored user's digital identity and the stored user's access policy to determine whether the user is authorized for access through the door and to make an access decision of YES or NO. The access decision may be communicated to the reader, which controls operation of a door lock in accordance with whether the access decision was YES or NO.
Claims17
A method of controlling access to a space through a controlled access point, wherein the controlled access point is controllable by a reader, the method comprising:
- storing a user's access policy in a memory of a user's mobile device;
- storing a user's digital identity in the memory of the user's mobile device, the user's digital identity including information that can be used to confirm that a current user of the user's mobile device is a particular user;
- the user's mobile device identifying an access point identifier for the controlled access point;
- the user's mobile device determining whether the current user of the user's mobile device matches the particular user identified by the user's digital identity;
- when the user's mobile device confirms that the current user of the user's mobile device matches the particular user identified by the user's digital identity, the user's mobile device using the stored user's access policy and the access point identifier to determine whether the particular user is authorized for access to the space through the controlled access point and to make an access decision of YES or NO;
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- when the access decision is YES, communicating the access decision to the reader.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon executable by one or more processors of a mobile device, the instructions when executed causing the mobile device to:
- store a user's access policy in a memory of the mobile device;
- store a user's digital identity in the memory of the mobile device, the user's digital identity including information that can be used to confirm that a current user of the mobile device is a particular user;
- determining an identity of a secure access point by determining a current location of the mobile device and identifying the secure access point from a plurality of secure access points that is closest to the current location of the mobile device;
- confirm that the user of the mobile device matches the particular user identified by the user's digital identity, and when confirmed, use the user's access policy and the identity of the secure access point to determine, via the one or more processors of the mobile device, whether the user is authorized to pass through the secure access point;
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- when the determination is made by the one or more processors of the mobile device that the user is authorized to pass through the secure access point, transmitting instructions to open the secure access point.
A method of controlling access to a space through a controlled access point, the method comprising:
- storing a user's access policy in a memory of a mobile device;
- storing a user's digital identity in the memory of the mobile device, the user's digital identity including information that can be used to confirm that a current user of the mobile device is a particular user;
- the mobile device determining whether the current user of the mobile device is the particular user, and when confirmed, the mobile device using the stored user's access policy to determine whether the user is authorized for access to the space through the controlled access point and to make an access decision of YES or NO;
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- when the access decision is YES, communicating the access decision from the mobile device to the controlled access point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.