Access control system with local mobile key distribution
AssigneeCarrier Corporation
InventorAdam Kuenzi
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system includes an application on a mobile device operable to communicate with a local portal, the application is operable to receive a mobile key from the local portal and from that to retrieve a mobile credential for authorizing a user to access an access control. A method of local key distribution can include entering a pre-shared password to a local portal to encrypt a mobile credential; communicating the encrypted mobile credential to an application on the mobile device; and entering the pre-shared password to the application on the mobile device to decrypt the mobile credential.
Claims21
A system, comprising:
- a local portal;
- and
- an application on a mobile device operable to communicate with the local portal, the application is operable to receive a mobile key from the local portal and from that to retrieve a mobile credential for authorizing a user to access an access control.
A method of local key distribution, the method comprising:
- entering a pre-shared password to a local portal to encrypt a mobile credential;
- communicating the encrypted mobile credential to an application on a mobile device;
- and entering the pre-shared password to the application on the mobile device to decrypt the mobile credential.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.