US 2003/0151493 A1Published application

Access control system, access control method and devices suitable therefor

AssigneeSwisscom AG

InventorsHugo Straumann, Felix Baessler

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Abstract

An access control system comprises a plurality of access control devices in each of which is stored an access code. Specific access codes and access rights for a plurality of access control devices are transmitted from an access control central unit over a mobile radio network to the mobile communication terminal of a user. Transmitted to the mobile communication terminal by an access control device to be passed is an access control device identification. In the mobile communication terminal, on the basis of the received identification, the access code and the access rights for the access control device to be passed are determined, and are transmitted to the access control device. The access control device clears the user for access if the received access rights suffice and the received access code agrees with the stored access code.

Claims16

Dependent claims

An access control system comprising a plurality of access control devices and at least one mobile communication terminal, an access code, assigned to the respective access control device being stored in each case in the access control devices, the access control devices each comprising an identification module for transmission of an access control device identification, stored in the access control device, to the mobile communication terminal, the mobile communication terminal comprising an access authorization module, in which are stored access control device identifications and access codes for a plurality of the access control devices, the access code for a respective access control device being stored in each case assigned to the access control device identification for this respective access control device, and the mobile communication terminal and the access control devices comprising communication means for exchange of data between the mobile communication terminal and one of the access control devices, wherein

access rights data, in each case assigned to an access control device identification, are stored in the access authorization module, which access rights data define access rights of the user of the mobile communication terminal for the access control device determined through the respective access control device identification,
the mobile communication terminal comprises means of transmitting to an access control device to be passed the access rights data, which are stored, assigned to the access control device identification, in the mobile communication terminal, which identification has been received from the access control device to be passed, and
the access control devices each comprise an access control module for checking access rights data received from the mobile communication terminal.

An access control method in which an access code is assigned to an access control device and is stored in the access control device, in which an access code is stored in a mobile communication terminal, in which an access control device identification, stored in the access control device, is transmitted from the access control device to the mobile communication terminal, in which the access code for the access control device is determined in the mobile communication terminal in that the access code is determined which is stored, assigned to the received access control device identification, in the mobile communication terminal, wherein the method comprises the steps of

transmitting access rights data, from the mobile communication terminal to the access control device, which data are stored, assigned to the received access control device identification, in the mobile communication terminal, and which define the access rights of the user for the access control device, and
checking the received access rights data in the access control device.

A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable medium with computer program code means, contained therein, for control of a processor of a mobile communication terminal, which medium comprises communication means for exchange of data with an access control device in such a way that an access control device identification, which is transmitted from an access control device to be passed, is received and accepted in the mobile communication terminal, and that an access code for the access control device to be passed is determined in the mobile communication terminal in that the access code is determined which is stored, assigned to the received access control device identification, in the mobile communication terminal, wherein
the computer program product contains further computer program means to control the processor of the mobile communication terminal in such a way that access rights data, which are stored, assigned to the received access control device identification, in the mobile terminal and which define the access rights of the user of the mobile communication terminal for the access control device to be passed are transmitted from the mobile communication terminal to the access control device to be passed.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/349,097Filed 23 Jan 2003
Priority: EP 02405109.613 Feb 2002
Published: 14 Aug 2003
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Classification8 codes

G07C 9/21
Involving the use of a pass: having a variable access code
G07C 9/00309
Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers…:…
G07C 9/00857
Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers…:…
G07C 9/27
Involving the use of a pass: with central registration