Remote device interface and telephone entry system
AssigneeAlarm.com Incorporated
InventorBenjamin Taylor
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Abstract
Methods and systems for granting access to a building are disclosed. The system includes a telephone entry system associated with the building, a processor in communication with the telephone entry system, a non-transitory computer readable medium. The non-transitory computer-readable medium includes one or more programming instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a request including an access code for access to the building code, determine whether the access code is valid, and transmit to the telephone entry system associated with the building a sequence of dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones to cause the telephone entry system to grant access to the building in response to determining that the access code is valid.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method for granting access to a building, the method comprising:
- transmitting, by a server computing device and to a mobile electronic device of a user, an access code for usage while requesting access to a building
- receiving, by the server computing device and through an application downloaded and installed on the mobile electronic device of the user attempting to gain building access, a request for access to the building that includes the access code;
- determining, by the server computing device, whether the received access code is valid;
- and
- in response to determining that the received access code is valid, transmitting, by the server computing device and to an entry system associated with the building, at least one signal to cause the entry system to grant access to the building, the application downloaded and installed on the mobile electronic device of the user being separate from the entry system associated with the building and the server computing device being separate and remote from the entry system associated with the building.
A server computing device comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more programming instructions that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- transmitting, to a mobile electronic device of a user, an access code for usage while requesting access to a building
- receiving, through an application downloaded and installed on the mobile electronic device of the user attempting to gain building access, a request for access to the building that includes the access code;
- determining whether the received access code is valid;
- and
- in response to determining that the received access code is valid, transmitting, to an entry system associated with the building, at least one signal to cause the entry system to grant access to the building, the application downloaded and installed on the mobile electronic device of the user being separate from the entry system associated with the building and the server computing device being separate and remote from the entry system associated with the building.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.