Smart license plate vault
OwnerCharlene Consolacion, Janno Stern +1inventors
InventorsCharlene Consolacion, Janno Stern, Jaan Viru
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Abstract
A smart license plate vault is disclosed. The smart license plate vault securely holds small objects, such as a vehicle key, while resembling a license plate mounting platform. The smart license plate vault establishes a communication connection with a user device via the local transceiver of the smart license plate vault and receives a signed command to access the vault from the user device via the communication connection, verifies authenticity of the signed command, and unlocks the vault only upon determining that the signed command is authentic
Claims17
A system comprising:
- a smart license plate vault comprising a base portion, the base portion comprising a vault, an electronic locking mechanism for selectively locking and unlocking the vault, a local transceiver, and a processor in communication with the electronic locking mechanism and the local transceiver for operating the smart license plate vault;
- wherein:
- the smart license plate vault establishes a communication connection with a user device via the local transceiver of the smart license plate vault;
- and
- the smart license plate vault receives a digitally signed command to access the vault from the user device via the communication connection, verifies authenticity of the digitally signed command, and unlocks the vault only upon determining that the digitally signed command is authentic.
A method comprising:
- establishing a communication connection between a smart license plate vault and a user device via a local transceiver of the smart license plate vault;
- receiving, by the user device, a user request to access the vault;
- generating, by the user device, a digitally signed command to access the vault and transmitting the digitally signed command to the smart license plate vault via the communication connection;
- and
- verifying, by the smart license plate vault, authenticity of the digitally signed command and unlocking the vault only upon determining that the digitally signed command is authentic.
A smart license plate vault comprising:
- a base portion, the base portion comprising a vault, an electronic locking mechanism for selectively locking and unlocking the vault, a local transceiver, and a processor in communication with the electronic locking mechanism and the local transceiver and coupled to a memory containing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to:
- establish a communication connection with a user device;
- receive, from the user device, a digitally signed command to access the vault via the communication connection;
- verify authenticity of the digitally signed command;
- and
- unlock the vault only upon determining that the digitally signed command is authentic.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.