Status monitoring systems and methods for touchless identity card emulators
AssigneeOloid Inc.
InventorsMadhu Kiran Madhusudhanan, Mohit Garg, Shankar Agarwal
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Abstract
Presented are user-friendly battery-powered touchless identity card emulator systems and methods that allow existing ID management installations, such as physical card reader systems, to securely operate without requiring a physical key and irrespective of type, model, shape, and size of reader and card format. Various embodiments that emulate physical identity cards integrate wireless functionality to existing systems to enable mobile access to provide advanced user/identity management capabilities for touchless access control systems.
Claims20
An identity card emulator health monitoring system comprising:
- a housing configured to at least partially enclose a reader, the reader being located within an access control system;
- a wireless processing element to receive, from the reader, reader information that comprises at least one of a frequency information or card format information during an initialization process;
- a communication interface to communicate the reader information to a wireless device that uses the reader information to generate configuration information that comprises authentication data, which causes the reader to grant access to a restricted area, the configuration information defining how the identity card emulator communicates with the reader, the configuration information defines at least one of a type of communication format or a communication protocol that is compatible with the reader;
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- a health monitoring system comprising an energy harvesting module that comprises a rechargeable battery, the status monitoring system monitors a health of the identity card emulator and communicates with a software application that comprises at least an administrator application or a user application to initiate an action.
A method for monitoring the health of an identity card emulator, the method comprising:
- receiving reader information from a reader comprising at least one of a frequency information or card format information;
- communicating the reader information to a wireless device that generates configuration information that defines how the identity card emulator communicates with the reader, the configuration information being associated with at least one of a type of communication format or a communication protocol;
- in response to receiving the configuration information from the wireless device, using the configuration information to communicate with the reader in a format that is compatible with the reader;
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- using a status monitoring system, which comprises an energy harvesting module that comprises a rechargeable battery, to perform steps comprising:
- monitoring a health of the identity card emulator;
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- communicating with a software application, which comprises at least an administrator application or a user application, to initiate an action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.