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US 2016/0080343 A1Published application
Method, apparatus, and system for mobile provisioning of nfc credentials
AssigneeAssa Abloy AB
InventorMark ROBINTON
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Abstract
A mobile provisioning system, method, and apparatus are provided. The mobile provisioning method is disclosed to enable a first mobile device to provision or write one or more guest identification objects to a second mobile device. The guest identification objects may be written only if the first mobile device has the appropriate permissions and may further be limited in their use as compared to non-guest identification objects.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- establishing a device-to-device connection between a trusted mobile device and a visitor mobile device and during the device-to-device connection, receiving, at the trusted mobile device, at least some information describing the visitor mobile device;
- generating at the trusted mobile device a request for a guest credential to be issued to the visitor mobile device, the request containing the at least some information describing the visitor mobile device and sending said request to a credential issuer;
- analyzing the request by the credential issuer to determine that the trusted mobile device is allowed to provision the visitor mobile device with the guest credential;
- and
- based on the analysis of the request, determining whether or not to generate the guest credential.
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A mobile device, comprising:
- a mobile device interface enabling the mobile device to establish a device-to-device connection with a visitor mobile device and receive at least some information describing the visitor mobile device;
- and
- a credential request unit configured to generate and send a request for the guest credential to a credential issuer on behalf of the visitor mobile device, the request containing the at least some information describing the visitor mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.