Short-range device communications for secured resource access
AssigneeLive Nation Entertainment, Inc.
InventorsKenneth Ives-Halperin, Harry C. Evans, III, David Johnson, Scott Wall, David Lilly, Ajay Pondicherry
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Abstract
Communications over short-range connections are used to facilitate whether access to resources is to be granted. For example, upon device discovery of one of an electronic user device and an electronic client device by the other device over a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, an access-enabling code associated with a user device or account can be evaluated for validity and applicability with respect to one or more particular resource specifications. User identity can be verified by comparing the user against previously obtained biometric information.
Claims21
An electronic user device comprising:
- one or more transceivers for receiving and transmitting wireless signals, wherein a transceiver of the one or more transceivers is configured to receive and transmit wireless signals over a short-range connection;
- an electronic data store for storage of user device data;
- a communication engine that:
- detects a first wireless signal having been transmitted over a short-range connection by an electronic client device and having been received by the one or more transceivers at the electronic user device,
- in response to the detection of the first wireless signal having been transmitted over the short-range connection from the electronic client device, facilitates transmission of a second wireless signal over the short range connection using the one or more transceivers,
- wherein the second wireless signal includes an identifier associated with the electronic user device,
- detects a third wireless signal having been transmitted over the short-range connection by the electronic client device and having been received by the one or more transceivers at the electronic user device,
- wherein the third wireless signal includes an encrypted access-enabling code, and
- facilitates storage of the encrypted access-enabling code in the electronic data store;
- an input device configured to receive input providing a decryption key;
- and
- a decoding engine that:
- facilitates retrieval of the encrypted access-enabling code from the electronic data store, and
- decrypts the encrypted access-enabling code using the decryption key to generate a decrypted access-enabling code.
A computer-implemented method for facilitating selective granting of resource access to authorized users based on short-range communication exchanges, the method comprising:
- detecting, at an electronic user device, a first wireless signal transmitted over a short-range connection;
- in response to the detecting, transmitting a second wireless signal over the short-range connection, wherein the second wireless signal includes an identifier associated with the electronic user device;
- detecting a third wireless signal transmitted over the short-range connection, wherein the third wireless signal includes an encrypted access-enabling code;
- storing the access-enabling code in an electronic data store of the electronic user device;
- receiving input corresponding to a determination of a decryption key;
- retrieving the encrypted access-enabling code from the electronic data store;
- decrypting the encrypted access-enabling code to generate a decrypted access-enabling code;
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- facilitating a presentation of the decrypted access-enabling code.
An electronic client device comprising:
- one or more transceivers for receiving and transmitting wireless signals, wherein a transceiver of the one or more transceivers is configured to receive and transmit wireless signals over a short-range connection;
- a communication engine that:
- detects a first wireless signal having been transmitted over a short-range connection by the electronic user device and having been received by the one or more transceivers,
- wherein the first wireless signal includes an identifier associated with the electronic user device;
- an access-right determination engine that:
- identifies a specification of a limited-access resource using the identifier associated with the electronic user device;
- facilitates determination of an access-enabling code using the specification of the limited-access resource;
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- an encoding engine for encrypting the access-enabling code using an encryption key to generate an encrypted access-enabling code;
- wherein the communication engine further:
- facilitates transmission of a second wireless signal over the short range connection to the electronic user device,
- wherein the second wireless signal includes the encrypted access-enabling code.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.