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US 12,406,168 B2Granted
Touchless identity card emulator systems and methods
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 integrate wireless functionality to existing systems to enable mobile access to provide advanced user/identity management capabilities for access control systems.
Claims20
An access control system comprising:
- a wireless device that generates a first wireless signal;
- an identity card emulator communicatively coupled with the wireless device, the identity card emulator comprising:
- a wireless processing element communicatively coupled to the wireless device to receive the first wireless signal, the first wireless signal comprising encrypted data associated with authentication information;
- a security processing element coupled to the wireless processing element, the security processing element performing steps comprising using a decryption key to decrypt the encrypted signal to access the authentication information, the wireless processing element performing steps comprising:
- generating a second wireless signal that comprises the authentication information and
- transmitting the second wireless signal;
- a reader communicatively coupled to the identity card emulator, the reader, in response to receiving the second wireless signal, performing steps comprising:
- generating a first wireline signal comprising the authentication information;
- and
- transmitting the first wireline signal;
- a backend system communicatively coupled to the reader, the backend system, in response to receiving the first wireline signal, performing steps comprising:
- processing the authentication information to determine whether a user is authorized to access a location;
- and
- in response to determining that the user is authorized to access the location generating a second wireline signal comprising an instruction to grant access to the user;
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- transmitting the second wireline signal to the reader to initiate an unlocking mechanism.
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An identity card emulator comprising:
- a wireless processing element that receives from a wireless device a first wireless signal that comprises encrypted data that comprises authentication information;
- a decryption module coupled to the wireless processing element, the decryption module, in response to receiving the encrypted data, decrypts the encrypted signal to access the authentication information;
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- a controller coupled to the decryption module, the controller causing the wireless processing element to generate a second wireless signal that communicates the authentication information to a reader to initiate an unlocking process.
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An access control method comprising:
- receiving a first wireless signal at an emulator device, the first wireless signal comprises encrypted data associated with authentication information;
- decrypting, at the emulator device, the encrypted data to access the authentication information;
- generating, at the emulator device, a second wireless signal that comprises the authentication information;
- transmitting the second wireless signal to a reader to initiate an unlocking process;
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- generating, at the reader, a third signal and transmitting the third signal to a backend system that, in response to determining the authentication information associated to an authorized user, grants access to a location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.