US 2019/0378364 A1 · Unattended physical delivery access method and itinerary control system

Abstract

An unattended physical delivery access control system includes a wireless mobile agent which journeys from multiple supply originations to many unattended delivery destinations through one or more actively communicative waypoints. In the vicinity of waypoints specified in an itinerary, the agent transacts tokens which are relayed to a cloud server. As the agent approaches the unattended delivery destination, the server verifies its credentials and the transit tokens transformed by waypoints. A portal actuator is operated by a physical access control server to enable delivery upon arrival and secure the portal upon departure. The agent is credentialed by each supply origination apparatus and receives destination, itinerary routing, and transit token(s). Waypoint identifiers may be recorded into the transit tokens by the agent. Each active waypoint acquires a token from the agent and relays it to the cloud server for validation.

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Dependent claims

A journey-based physical access control system for multiple unaffiliated supply chain providers comprising:

a cloud access control server (server);
the server coupled to all of,
a hybrid communication network (network);
the network coupled to,
a first plurality of supply origination authentication anchor points (anchor point);
a second plurality of supply recipient destination portal actuators to enable physical access;
a physical access controller;
at least one actively communicating waypoint (waypoint) at a location in the vicinity of a supply recipient destination portal actuator;
and
a third plurality of location-sensitive mobile wireless devices (device) configured with an agent, wherein said network comprises wired and wireless communication channels.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Unattended physical delivery access method and itinerary control system

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Abstract

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